TIL Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter of "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (1989) appeared in a virtual graduation message for the 2020 graduates of San Dimas High School. Some quotes from the message included: "San Dimas High School football does rule", "be excellent to each other", "And party on".
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Variety
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Give Message to Graduating Seniors of ‘Bill & Ted’ High School (Watch)
Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter joined San Dimas High School's virtual graduation ceremony on June 2 to deliver a totally bodacious message.
TIL in 1856, the Xhosa people followed a prophecy from a 15yo girl telling them to destroy all their cattle and crops
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Nongqawuse
Xhosa prophetess
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Today I learned from the 1950s to 1970s, attempts were made at running bus services between London and India. The trip took about 50 days, cost about $100, and buses are said to have included private bunks and even a kitchen.
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India–United Kingdom bus routes
coach service
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TIL the name of Ishi, known as the 'last wild indian' is an adopted name. In the Yahi culture, he one cannot speak his own name until introduced by another Yahi. When asked his name, he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me"
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Ishi
last of Yahi people
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TIL former NBA Star Dwight Howard Ate 5,500 Calories in Candy Every Day for a Decade. Howard was consuming the amount of sugar equivalent to 24 chocolate bars every day.
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Peoplemag
Dwight Howard Ate 5,500 Calories in Candy Every Day for a Decade
"He used to have boxes on boxes of candy in the locker room," a source confirms to PEOPLE.
TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.
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United States Courts
Justice Thurgood Marshall Profile - Brown v. Board of Education
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TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, people could buy plastic screens to colorize their black & white TVs
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Me-TV
Who remembers putting color screens on their black-and-white TV sets?
Did your family use a plastic screen to turn its black-and-white TV into color?
TIL a 1991 study by the Journal of the American Medical Association concluded that a Camel cigarette ad campaign featuring the mascot Joe Camel was far more successful at advertising to children than adults. The campaign ended in 1997 after increased litigation & pressure from U.S. federal agencies.
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Joe Camel
advertising mascot
TIL William Wrigley initially offered free baking powder as a gift for his soap but the powder turned out to be more popular. He switched to selling the powder and added sticks of gum as a gift. The gum became incredibly popular thus forcing him to switch and became the world's leading gum company.
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Juicy Fruit
brand of chewing gum produced by the Wrigley Company
TIL Henry Ford had two automobile companies fail to nothing before founding the Ford Motor Company which delivered the Model A in 1904
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Intellectualventures
Failing for Success: Henry A. Ford
Henry Ford is one of the most renowned entrepreneurs in history. Before his success, Ford encountered failure during initial production of his first automobile. Nonetheless, Ford used the lessons from these failures to instruct his future success as an inventor…
TIL that Seth Rogen's first ever movie role was in Donnie Darko.
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Seth Rogen
Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker (born 1982)
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TIL that after retiring from baseball Jackie Robinson became vice president of the coffee company Chock full o'Nuts. This made him the first Black vice president of a major American corporation.
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Jackie Robinson
American baseball player
TIL that even though Jim Delligatti is often regarded as the creator of the Big Mac, Delligatti admitted that he didn’t invent the Big Mac, but merely copied the “double deck hamburger” marketed by the Big Boy hamburger chain since the 1940s. The actual Big Mac was created to compete with Big Boy.
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Big Mac
hamburger sold by McDonald's
TIL Oddjob is average height in the James Bond movie Goldfinger (even taller in the novel). The only reason he’s a dwarf in Goldeneye 64 is because the developers confused him with Nick Nack from The Man With the Golden Gun.
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TheGamer
Goldeneye: Was Oddjob Really That Cheap? An Investigative Report
Goldeneye 007's Oddjob is often considered the pinnacle of video game cheating. But then why was he put in the game in the first place?
TIL that, in 1920s Paris, James Joyce would get drunk, start fights, and then hide behind Ernest Hemingway for protection, screaming, "Deal with him, Hemingway!"
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Bbc
Startling facts about Ireland’s most famous writers
Who would the author of Ulysses hide behind in a fight? For St Patrick’s Day, BBC Culture unearths six weird and wonderful facts about Irish writers.
TIL chickens sing an "egg song" that can go on for several minutes after laying an egg, and we're not sure why.
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Chicken & Chicks Info
Why Do Chickens Squawk After Laying an Egg? (4 Reasons) - Chicken & Chicks Info
But why do chickens squawk after laying an egg? For the most part, it’s believed to be because the hen is distracting predators, letting her flock mates know,
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TIL Billionaire Richard Branson started more than 100 businesses in total and failed at least 15 times
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Business Pundit
15 times billionaire Richard Branson failed at business
Billionaire Richard Branson has started over 100 businesses since he was 16. Almost all of them were successful, but to date, at least 15 have failed. It’s not surprising that some of Brandon’s businesses failed. After all, the billionaire has always thought…
TIL that the inflation experienced by Hungary after WW2 was so bad that the government stopped collecting taxes as even a single day's delay in collecting would wipe out the value of the money.
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Global Financial Data
The Worst Hyperinflations in History: Hungary
If you were to ask most people which country suffered the worst inflation in history, they would answer Germany, since Germany’s...
TIL that the Rambo lunchbox by Thermos in 1985 marked the end of the metal lunchbox era. Manufacturers switched to making lunchboxes with plastic because it was cheaper and because a group of mothers in Florida complained that metal lunchboxes were being used by children as weapons.
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Cbsnews
Childhood memories preserved at the Lunchbox Museum
Cartoon characters, TV stars and superheroes fill the shelves of the Columbus, Ga., repository of school lunch history
TIL Boeing used depleted uranium plates as counterweights in its 747 airplanes and some helicopters. While relatively safe, some of these plates have been lost. They stopped using it completely in 1981.
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TIL over 98% of Korean households have a special kimchi fridge
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Korean Cultural Centre Art
A Uniquely Korean Appliance
In November of 1995, the “kimchi refrigerator,” a home appliance dedicated to storing kimchi, made its first appearance. The new refrigerator owed its introduction to changes in Korean lifestyles that rendered the clay crocks traditionally used to store kimchi…