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m11JP TIL that the bar scenes in “Passengers” (2016) pays homage to the bar in the Overlook Hotel in the “The Shining” (1980). The look and layout is similar and both “barmen” wearing red are not human.
M7NKa TIL of the April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire and the "Bulgarian Horrors" it resulted in. It was brutally suppressed by the Ottomans by massacring some 15,000 Bulgarians, resulting in a public outcry in across Europe and eventually to Bulgaria's freedom.
OGBKL TIL that some fish can make their own booze (alcohol) when they are oxygen deprived...
jNlQ TIL there is a tree that owns itself in Athens, GA
jNvEQ TIL that despite all manner of theories and suggestions, Douglas Adams himself has said he chose 42 as ‘the answer to life, the universe and everything’, after simply staring out at his garden and choosing a ‘funny’ number, completely at random.