Post * mxdjo — Curious Curator

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TIL the city of Portland, OR once drained a 38 million gallon reservoir because a man peed in it.

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gRK9 TIL a Jack Russell used to catch the bus to his favourite pub in York, UK all by himself. Jumping on the No.10 near his house, he would visit The Black Bull where he had his own water dish and a regular supply of sausages, before getting a lift home at closing time with one of the barmaids.

x6b9k TIL former Alben Barkley, relegated to the back bench in his return to the Senate, noted in a speech, “I’m glad to sit in the back row, for I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” He then dropped dead.

rRE9e TIL that when Bill Cosby won 3 Razzies in 1987, he insisted that he wanted a real trophy. His original Razzie was worth $1.97, but the Fox Network made him real ones out of 24 carat gold and Italian marble, costing $30,000. He was the first actor to claim any Razzie.

OoWRX TIL that Aaron Sorkin once sent himself to the ER while acting out a scene he'd written | While writing a Newsroom episode, he was acting out a scene where a character lunges at someone, and he smashed into his bathroom mirror, breaking his nose and making a huge bloody mess.

Egkg0 TIL that in 1991, The filming of "Das Boot" was delayed for several weeks, because someone had rented the submarine movie prop to American filmmaker for his own film shooting in the area. This filmmaker was Steven Spielberg and the film he was shooting was Raiders of the Lost Ark.