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TIL that the creator of VeggieTales mother forbade two things on the show 1. They could not display Jesus as a Vegetable 2. The Veggies can have no redemptive relationship with God

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ak4b TIL that in 1986 a federal prisoner escaped during a prisoner transfer. A week later he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend.
o5RE TIL after the 2007 movie “The Man From Earth” was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publicly thanked the file sharers because it “lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financier’s expectations.”
OlW4 TIL Jimi Hendrix and girlfriend Kathy Etchingham called each other by their middle names, Marshall and Mary. After an argument where Jimi complained about her lumpy mashed potatoes Etchingham stormed out into the street and left. When she returned the next day he had written ‘The Wind Cries Mary’
e06r6 TIL there is a bird that lacks a singing voice to attract mates -- instead it beats its wings faster than the speed of sound to create sonic booms that can be heard by all the females in the area
YyLZ TIL there is a town in Alaska where almost everyone lives and/or works under one roof. A single 14-story high-rise is home “to most of the town’s residents as well as its post office, grocery store, health clinic, laundromat and church.”