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TIL Dr. Seuss' widow disliked 'The Cat in the Hat' (2003) so much that she banned Hollywood from making Live Action movies of Seuss characters

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6LMJ TIL of the Yamato 1, the first working prototype boat to use a Magnetohydrodynamic drive (MHD). Built by Mitsibishi, the ship’s drive electrifies sea water and utilizes magnetic fields to propel itself. The MHD uses no moving parts.
l7Y45 TIL the band Counting Crows got its name from "One for Sorrow", a British divination nursery rhyme about the superstitious counting of magpies, which are members of the crow family. Singer Adam Duritz heard the rhyme in the 1989 film Signs of Life, which starred his friend Mary-Louise Parker.
BErD TIL of Sheriff Buford Pusser. This 6'6" tank of a human waged a one-man war on moonshining, prostitution, gambling, and other vices in MI, surviving 7 stabbings and 8 shootings. He also single-handedly took vengeance on ¾ of his wife’s killers before dying in a car crash.
bOMj TIL The name “sneakers” originally referred to how quiet the rubber soles were on the ground, in contrast to noisy standard hard leather soled dress shoes. Someone wearing sneakers could “sneak up” on you
AD5Lx TIL of ‘The Vanishing Lake’ in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which fills and empties frequently but unpredictably due to unknown geological conditions. There are three streams flowing into the lake but none out. It is said that on nights when the lake is full, a ghost haunts the shoreline.