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5VGDQ TIL The old cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" was based on text by Robert Fletcher, a poet and engineer with the Department of Highways in Helena, Montana. It was 'songified' by Cole Porter, who bought the poem from Fletcher for $250.
LQ76r TIL that the largest fish ever caught with a rod and reel was a 3,427-pound great white shark caught by Frank Mundus in 1986. Mundus, a famous charter boat captain and fisherman, was the inspiration for the Jaws character Quint.
v1k18 TIL the Razzouk family has been creating tattoos in the Old City of Jerusalem for 27 generations, over 700 years.
PYW1Z TIL Actor Paul Marcarelli – the Verizon Wireless “Can you hear me now?” guy – told “The Atlantic” magazine that the catchphrase plagues him so much that someone even said it to him at his grandmother’s funeral as her casket was being lowered into the cemetery plot.
DnJg TIL that in the Sailor Moon universe, there was an openly homosexual character named Sailor Uranus, and her girlfriend was Sailor Neptune.