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TIL the oldest cat ever lived to 38 and her name was Creme Puff

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XAp8 TIL One of Bill Clinton’s first jobs out of law school was working for the Dallas office of the 1972 George McGovern Campaign. He worked with Ron Kirk, Anne Richards, and Steven Spielberg; who went on to become Mayor of Dallas, Governor of Texas, and Steven Spielberg, respectively.
8Gea TIL Linda Hamilton actually picked the locks on her harness and on the door in the mental hospital in Terminator 2
ODDa TIL almost all of The Hobbit’s character names were taken out of an old Icelandic poem “Dvergatal”
xVaMg TIL that after a screening of Pink Floyd The Wall, Steven Spielberg turned to the head of Warner Brothers and said “What the fuck was that?”
QNdp9 TIL that in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a horse race at Belmont Park while being dead. He suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle, and the horse crossed the finish line in first place.