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TIL that the former Mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman, spoke to a group of fourth graders and when asked about his hobbies, he said “Drinking Bombay Sapphire Gin”. When questioned about the statement, he replied with “If they didn’t want the answer, the kid shouldn’t have asked the question.”

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QN05L TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 30-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 320 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.