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TIL Danny Mcbride (red) was a co writer for the most recent Halloween Trilogy

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16bJd TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was the first civilian in the United States to purchase a Humvee military vehicle. He loved it so much that he pushed its manufacturer to develop a street-legal, civilian version, which was released in 1992 as the Hummer H1.
woNRJ TIL the Suwannee Canal Company attempted to drain the Okefenokee swamp back in the 1890s
LKj0 TIL Eminem bought Elton John 2 diamond cock rings for his civil partnership
X04RD TIL that the famous James Bond theme (first heard in 1962 in Dr. No) was source of a long running dispute between John Barry and Monty Norman. Norman had originally written a song for a musical adaptation of V. S. Naipaul's novel A House for Mr Biswas which was the inspiration.
b9W7N TIL abolitionist Fredrick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century and never smiled in a single photo, to counter the notion of a happy slave.