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An estimated $4,000 is thrown into the Trevi Fountain in Rome each day.

The money is collected every night and given to a charity. The charity will offer free food items for the needy at a supermarket.

Four fountain cleaners were arrested after being caught pocketing the money they found there. One guy, nicknamed d'Artagnan, has been banned from the fountain after fishing for coins from it for 34 years.

Kind of reminds of this really old Tom Green sketch:

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"Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles is based on a real place.

The real Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army children's home in a Liverpool suburb that John Lennon remembered from his childhood. The Salvation Army website can tell you all about it. The original building was torn down, and replaced in 1973 with a smaller children's home named "John Lennon Court". It closed in 2005 and now functions as a prayer center and artists' studio under the name, the "Boiler Room".

When you switch corresponding letters or segments of words, it is called a spoonerism.

A popular example is "nucking futs." The word spoonerism comes from Reverend William Archibald Spooner, a famous lecturer who reportedly did this a lot.

If a spoonerism is switching part of the beginning of a word, a "kniferism" would switch part of the middle of a word, and a "forkerism" would be for the end of a word. An example would be "the Duck and Doochess of Windsor" and "President Hoobert Heever". These aren't as common, and are arguably still just spoonerisms.
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"Yesterday" by the Beatles has been covered over 1,600 times.

In 1986 it held the record for most recorded song. It has been covered by Elvis Presley, Boyz II Men, Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, and James Brown. The song reportedly came to Paul McCartney in a dream and when he first played it, he wasn't sure if he had already heard it before. So even the writer of the song almost thought he was doing cover.

From the Guinness World Records archive.

The actress who plays Mercedes Jones on the TV show Glee was rejected by American Idol.

When Amber Riley auditioned for American Idol, she was turned down by the show's producers. According to Idol judge Randy Jackson she never even made it far enough to audition in front of the show's judges.

Despite losing on Idol, Riley has had a successful career. She still made it onto television (the same network, FOX) on the TV show Glee, and she's had the opportunity to perform at the White House!

Since her failed audition was never televised, here's one of our favorite Idol audition fails instead. Enjoy.

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