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TIL The Wiggles have a special pose for pictures with kids so that they don’t have to touch them and their hands are always visible to parents

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Zpyma TIL Bill Murray doesn't have an agent and only fields offers via a voice mailbox that he rarely checks. Apparently this is how he missed out on films such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Monsters Inc, The Squid and the Whale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Little Miss Sunshine, he never checked
5VO7k TIL about Return to Dust, a Chinese film which ends with the dirt poor farmer’s suicide. In the censored version, it ended with a statement that the farmer “moved to his new home in the winter of 2011 and started his new life with the help of the government and the warm-hearted villagers.”
LQWjd TIL that the Wall Drug Store has a billboard advertising its goods and services in Grey Bull, Wyoming, a 394-mile drive away from the South Dakota establishment.
4eRg TIL The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Guard Identification Badge is the second least-awarded decoration of the United States military with the first being the Astronaut Badge
a86NZ TIL in 1939 the US Military produced less than 3000 planes. By the end of the war they had produced 300,000 aircraft, including almost 100,000 fighter planes.