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TIL of Hotel Barges, a Sort-Of Sailing Hotel Room on a River in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK and, Most Commonly, France. The Guest Capacity Can Be Anywhere from Four to Twenty-Four

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p8RXG TIL Walt Disney was so fixed on having semi-retired actress Jane Darwell appear in Mary Poppins as the bird woman that he personally drove to her retirement home to ask her after she originally refused
wLjWJ TIL that January 14th is the Feast of the Ass. A Catholic feast day mostly celebrated in the Middle Ages that honors all asses in the Bible, especially the one that bore Mary and the baby Jesus into Egypt after the birth.
N7Lbb TIL that Korean art has a genre called “chaekgeori” that literally means books and things because their government banned books so they felt the need to paint real-life scale books and position them behind their seats.
m18xO TIL that Ohm's law (Voltage=Current*Resistance) was rejected by the German scientific/education community for over a decade after Georg Ohm published his research
KOAbE TIL Jim Varney the “Ernest P. Worrell” guy was a brilliant Shakespearian actor who played Hamlet.