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TIL: The term “Bistro” means “quickly” in Russian, and was introduced to the French in Paris during the Russian occupation of France following the Napoleonic Wars, as Russian soldiers overran Parisian restaurants

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ADb9B TIL "Closing Time" by Semisonic is not just about people leaving a bar at closing time. Drummer Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Dan Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" & that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar."
7rvZp TIL that the most remote inhabited place on earth, the island of Tristan da Cunha, is 1250 miles from the next closest inhabited location. With no airstrip and out of civilian helicopter flying range, the fastest way to travel to it is a 6 day boat journey from South Africa.
B8ey TIL The Little Shop of Horrors was reportedly the fastest film ever made. It was written in a single night, rehearsed in three days, and shot in two days and one night, all to finish by New Year’s 1960 when a new industry practice started to pay actors residual fees
78ZKX TIL Convicted spy Robert Hanssen frequently visited a stripper to give her gifts in an attempt to convert her to Catholicism
691rW TIL Olivia de Havilland, born in Japan in 1916, won Best Actress 2x; starred in the highest-grossing film ever (adjusted); legendarily sued Warner Bros and won; and died in Paris in 2020 at 104. She and her sister, Joan Fontaine- who hated each other- are the only siblings to win lead acting Oscars.