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TIL John Travolta owns a Boeing 707 and his house is an airport

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oRVXW TIL: Due to widespread unemployment and car ownership in the US in the 1910s, an Uber-like taxi service started called Jitney where individuals used their person cars to drive people to their destination for money
9JNm TIL ‘Chum’ is actually fish bait, which are usually fish guts, parts, fluid, bones and blood. Which is why in SpongeBob, nobody eats 'Chum’, because they are non-cannibalistic fish. However, Patrick can eat chum because he’s a starfish. Starfish 'feed on dead fish’.
bYA0 TIL that Django and Broomhilda are supposed to be the great-great-great-great grandparents of John Shaft, from the Shaft movie series
loBpK TIL that there is a German word, verschlimmbessern, to define the act of making something worse in a failed attempt to improve a situation, e.g. trying to dislodge a ball stuck in a tree by throwing another ball at it - which subsequently also gets stuck.
78g7O TIL That in La Paz, Bolivia - the world's highest national capital at roughly 3,650 m (11,975 ft) above sea level, water boils at 87°C (189°F) instead of the usual 100°C (212°F) at sea level.