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TIL in the add-on ‘Lonesome Road’ for the game 'Fallout: New Vegas’ there’s a fossilized dog statue that you can pick up named “Seymour”. It’s an Easter Egg to Fry’s dog of the episode 'Jurassic Bark’ in Futurama.

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nykP TIL John Lennon originally wrote “Come Together” as a campaign song for Timothy Leary, who was running for governor of California at the time. When the song didn’t work out, Lennon took it to the Beatles. It was the last song all four Beatles cut together.
4jOo TIL a Cleveland woman was ordered by a judge to stand on a corner during rush hour on two days holding a sign that read “Only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus”, after notoriously disregarding the law and laughing at the charges.
OG6J6 TIL Humphrey Bogart was an avid chess player and often played correspondence chess with soldiers overseas during World War II. In 1943, the FBI told him to stop doing so after they intercepted his mail believing the chess notations to be secret codes.
Wkk9 TIL that when Bruce Willis was a kid he developed a stutter. He discovered that this disability vanished when performing on stage, which led to him having the acting career he has today.
aw5Bb TIL about Femtoengineering, which is technology 6 orders of magnitude smaller than nanotech. At this scale, engineering utilises quarks & strings to manipulate atoms. If achieved, could lead towards macro-scale teleportation, as well as breakthroughs in force field generation and antigravity tech.