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5Y0ok TIL that there is an island (Pheasant Island) between the border of France and Spain that, every 6 months, it changes from one government to another, during the change, there is also a ceremony on the island. However access is prohibited.
ZpEwD TIL In-N-Out invented the fast food drive-thru when co-founder Harry Snyder invented a two-way speaker box in 1948
k9Lg TIL that Stephen King has made large charitable donations without announcing them because he was “raised firmly to believe that if you give away money and you make a big deal of it so that everybody sees it, that’s hubris. (…) you’re not supposed to make a big deal about it.”
KOJG4 TIL the producers of Rush Hour 2 paid the Triad about $64,000 in protection money that was later recovered by the local police.
X0ZD6 TIL in 1931 a 15 year old went to a hospital in Chicago and was mistakenly given a transfusion of blood from a parrot because the physician misheard the doctor’s instruction to “use her parents’ blood.” The hospital staff frantically searched for a parrot and extracted its blood for injection