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TIL Earl Hindman (Wilson from TV’s “Home Improvement”) played one of the hijackers in the original Taking of Pelham 123, also mostly in disguise the whole movie.

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ZpavY TIL: "Gutter Oil" street food vendors and low tier restaurants in China and few in Vietnam would gather the cooking oil that ends up in the sewer, get rid of most of the impurities, and reuse again as they can't afford new cooking oil. It reportedly tastes the same.
ADOg TIL that a CD of monks singing Gregorian chant made it to #3 on the Billboard 200
N751b TIL that Liberal, Missouri was founded as an atheist utopia. Residents published recruitment ads claiming "it was the only town of its size in the US without a priest, preacher, church, saloon, God, Jesus, Hell, or Devil." The founder, George Walser, later converted to Christianity.
pkP8 TIL The man who sold his back to an art dealer. When he dies his skin will be framed - until then he spends his life sitting in galleries with his shirt off
4k8K6 TIL a grown cat can jump between 5-8 times it's height. That would be the equivalent of human ability to jump from the ground up to 3rd or 4th floor!