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TIL Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no prices; guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.

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XEnE6 TIL The first known use of "toast" as a metaphorical term for "you're dead" was in the film Ghostbusters (1984), in which Bill Murray's character declares, "This chick is toast", before attacking the villain. The earliest known printed account is from The St. Petersburg Times of Oct. 1, 1987.
8B9X TIL the United States has had a legally declared “state of emergency” almost continuously from 1950 to this day
ro5e TIL that former general David Petraeus was accidentally shot in the chest with an M-16 rifle. The hospital released him early after he did fifty push-ups without resting, just a few days after the accident.
wLK66 TIL: Along with LOTR, Sean Connery also turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn’t understand the script. Seeing his mistakes, he made League of Extraordinary Gentleman... despite not understanding the script.
xVyM0 TIL that bearded vultures are the only birds that live exclusively off of bones and eat both the marrow and bone itself.