TIL the reason that Mike Myers ended up playing the Cat in the Hat was because he was sued after cancelling on a prior project. He settled, and one of the terms of the agreement in the settlement was he would take a lead in another film by director Bo Welch, who ended up directing The Cat in the Hat

TIL that the picture “The Scream” by Edvard Munch does not depict a person screaming, but rather someone reacting to hearing a scream.

TIL Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. When he moved to Los Angeles, there was already an actor named Michael Douglas, so Keaton flipped through a phone book until he saw the name Keaton and decided to make it his stage name.

'Rumors like this can harm small businesses': Seattle restaurant responds to internet claims of worm in sushi

TIL that 1 out of every 8 Americans has worked at a McDonalds at some point in their life.

Priorities

Dance Party at Pike Place! Sunday afternoon

TIL that an English chemist named James Price claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When asked by members of the Royal Society to perform the experiment in front of credible witnesses, he reluctantly agreed, only to drink poison in front of them instead.

U be the judge

TIL that in 1976, 3 men kidnapped a bus full of schoolchildren with the goal of ransoming them back for 5 million dollars. They tried to place the ransom call, but the line was busy, and they ended up falling asleep. By the time they woke up, the children had freed themselves and made it to safety.

Back in 2020, the Scots-language edition Wikipedia had to remove close to 23,000 out of the 50,000 total articles after it was revealed that they were made by an American teenager who did NOT speak Scots.

"Did I win?"

On the Wikipedia page about the “Timeline of Irish inventions and discoveries," there is a 300-year gap in between when the Irish invented whiskey and their next listed invention.

We won, but a What Cost?

Eliot Ness' fortune and fame ran out in the end.

I just want to light up the comments.

The Wonder Bar Is Low

Seattle activist, relatives indicted by feds in drug trafficking ring

That was the wrong animal my dude.

LBJ was simply just better at committing crimes

Turns out everyone in the 1800s liked their version of cowboys

What a score on 9/11

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“Who is this hairy albino guy and why did he just hand me a leather rectangle?” - Emperor of the Inka, probably

Some versions of the story state the subject of this meme, Sultan Ibrahim the Mad wanted a concubine with the genitalia of a cow (I'm not making this up) instead.