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TIL Canada used to have 'Johnny Cash' machines that were ATMs endorsed by Johnny Cash

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yBvl TIL that author J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan) founded a cricket team whose members included, among others, Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), H. G. Wells (War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), P. G. Wodehouse (Jeeves & Wooster), and A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh).
oB8LK TIL The last Blockbuster (Oregon) has been turned into a 90s themed AirBnB with the guest having full access to the entire movie repertory.
pXgQ TIL famous murder mystery author Anne Perry writes from experience, as she herself spent five years in prison at age fifteen for murdering her friend’s mother
Z8Q6B TIL there are over 70 cats living in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. They are quite celebrities - not only films have been made about them but there's also a festival and a holiday dedicated to them.
LQXGv TIL that the inspiration for Billy Elliot was an opera singer, Thomas Allen, not a dancer