The 1979 film The Warriors took place in New York City during a time when New York had a reputation as a crime-infested wasteland filled with garbage and graffiti. It never was as bad as portrayed in the media, and the city is different now, but the movie lives on. To younger viewers, it seems to be set in a post-apocalyptic future, while old-timers know the movie, and the book it's based on, are relics of their era. If you are a fan of the movie, you might want to learn some trivia about the making of The Warriors.

5. It had a comic book series that filled in plot points.

As of now the comic is online and should be easy to find, but it occurs after the events of the movie. The gang attempts to free Ajax and the individual members continue to develop after returning to Coney.

4. Robert DeNiro was supposed to have a part.

It’s not really certain why he was never cast in the role of Cowboy but the rumors are that he simply passed on it or that the director didn’t want him there. In truth it would have given the film the star power it needed.

Read more trivia about the film The Warriors at TVOM.

If you have a high school senior in your home, get ready for lots of walking around campuses, trying to discern what makes this school different from the one you saw last week. Your child knows there's no way they're ever going to attend this school because it's close enough for their parents to drive to. However, it's close enough to drive to, and they get an excused day off from from school for taking the tour. This would be better titled as a "generic" college tour rather than an "honest" tour, but the difference is negligible.

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The tour is led by a student on a work study program, and they do their best because they don't want to go back to washing dishes in the cafeteria. Your kid runs into a student they barely knew from high school, and you don't see them again for hours. Meanwhile, you're lucky to see one dorm room, since no one volunteers for theirs to be seen. Soon, you realize that it doesn't matter a bit what the school looks like, only whether they will give your kid financial aid. After two or three of these tours, you just send your kid (and all their friends) off to go see a campus on their own. They just wanted a day away from school anyway. -via College Humor

Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook.

 Ernest Borgnine was one of those rarities, an actor who not only starred in a classic TV series McHale's Navy but was also a huge (and Oscar-winning) movie star. Ernest passed on at the ripe old age of 95 (he looked about 65) on July 8th, 2012.

As an actor, Ernest gave legendary and brilliant performances in Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), From Here to Eternity (1953), The Dirty Dozen (1967) and The Wild Bunch (1969), along with dozens of others.

Although he specialized in playing bad guys in his early films, he gained true movie immortality by playing a shy, withdrawn butcher in Marty (1955), a true classic and one of the most intimate films to ever win an Academy Award. Ernest himself earned his one and only Academy Award for Best Actor as the title character in Marty.

He also had a very successful career on television, starring in McHale's Navy (1962-1966), as well as Airwolf, besides making many great guest appearances in such series as Get Smart, The Simpsons and Magnum P.I.

Ernest was beloved far and wide in show business, a well-known "good guy", a genuinely nice, decent man. Okay, let's take a look at a few facts you may not have known about the great Mr. Ernest Borgnine...

1. Ernest was perfectly cast as the star of McHale's Navy, as he had served 10 years in the U.S. Navy. He served on the destroyer USS Lamberton. He earned several decorations for his distinguished service, including the Navy Good Conduct Medal, the World War II victory medal and the American Defense Service Medal.

2. One of Ernest's early jobs was sweeping up the clipped hair from the floor in a barber shop.

3. Ernest claimed the P.T. boat used in McHale's Navy was owned by Howard Hughes.

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Norm Krumpe had the digital personal assistant Alexa pick a number between one and a million. He only needed two guesses to get it right. Artificial intelligence has a way to go before it takes over the world. Someone remarked that it was like playing hide and seek with a giggling toddler. -via reddit

In 1952, Mike Murphy ran for student council secretary. The 12-year-old handed out campaign cards, which at the time had to be printed at a print shop, and it wasn't cheap. I recall asking about business cards for my dad in the 1970s, and the printer said the first one would be $50! I almost fainted, but then he said every one after that was only a penny. Anyway, no sixth-grader had ever campaigned with printed materials before, so Murphy made an full and honest disclosure of his finances. Which made the local paper. However, you might notice that he never explained where he got the money for the cards. We don't know if he later went into politics as an adult.  -via Weird Universe

We know that working too many hours on too little sleep can be dangerous. Teaching hospitals have the latest technology and the most up-to-date facilities, but they are also staffed by residents in training who may be working long swing shifts and haven't had a good night's sleep in days. Third shift factory workers have more accidents than their daytime counterparts, even when their shifts never change. There's something in our bodies that craves a regular amount of sleep during nighttime hours, even when modern life encourages us to fight against the clock to squeeze more into a 24-hour day. Scientists, called chronobiologists, at the University of California at San Diego's Center for Circadian Biology are studying how time affects our bodies and our health.

All across the UCSD campus, members of the Center for Circadian Biology—which does not have its own building— are researching these timekeeping functions. Among their findings: Genes that run our circadian rhythms are linked to metabolism and its control networks. Mess with one and you mess with the other. For example, eat too late in the evening, when your metabolic defenses have powered down, and your chances of growing obese balloon. In turn, that fat can also invade your liver and thus increase your likelihood of inflammation and cancer.

Our mental health is also at risk. Researchers have found that 70 percent of people with disorders that keep them from sleeping at the usual time—possibly due to a genetic abnormality—suffer from conditions like severe depression or anxiety. In fact, nearly two-thirds of bipolar sufferers ­report abnormal sleep cycles.

Already, doctors treating cancer have used chronobiology’s findings to better plan their treatments. For example, undergoing chemotherapy later in the day increases patients’ chances of avoiding nausea because stomach linings better repair themselves at that time.

Read about research into circadian rhythms and how it affects our health at Popular Science. -via Digg

Alexander Hamilton had a nice house called the Grange built for his family in the countryside of Manhattan Island in 1802. He was only there two years before he was killed by Aaron Burr. But the house remained, and the city grew up around it. Eventually the Grange was hemmed in by trees, apartment buildings, and a church next door that built a stone porch partially across the front yard of the Grange. The National Park Service took possession of the house in 1962, but how do you move a historical home when it's blocked in on all sides? It took more than 40 years to put a plan into place. Mike Brovont of Wolfe House & Building Movers described the process.

The church’s stone porch was problem one. “And we couldn’t go in from the back because of trees,” Brovont says. Wolfe’s plan was to come at the problem vertically, raising the house off its foundation 38 feet in the air to clear the obstruction of the porch. “This way, we could keep it intact.”

Over a period of three weeks in May and June 2008, Wolfe employees performed a structural levitation act. The Grange—which weighs roughly 300 tons—was raised in stages.  

Read how the Grange was moved to a permanent location and see a video at Mental Floss.

Hurricane Irma left a wide swath of damage across the Caribbean and Florida. People from all over are chipping in to help, but one person has caught the interest of the internet more than any other. She's Sister Margaret Ann, a high school principle and Carmelite nun who was seen clearing downed trees with a chainsaw, in her usual habit. The Miami-Dade Police Department posted pictures and video of Sister Margaret Ann on their Facebook page.

Sister Margaret Ann is the principal of Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll High School, southwest of downtown Miami, which wrote on its Facebook page early Wednesday, "We are so blessed to have her and the Carmelite Sisters at our school. We are proud of the example they show for our students and other members of the community every day."

The phrase "chainsaw-wielding nun" is one we didn't know we would need to use in the wake of Irma, but it shows the breadth of the work it will take to recover from this storm — in Florida, in neighboring states and in the Caribbean.

Read more about the chainsaw-wielding nun at NPR. -via reddit

Apple unveiled the iPhone X yesterday. Apple head Tim Cook did the traditional Apple press conference at the company's Cupertino headquarters. The new iPhone does NOT restore the headphone jack, but did away with the home button. The phone is becoming more minimalist except for one more thing… the price. It took just a few hours for jackfilms to come up with a parody ad. It contains NSFW language.   

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The good news is that the company will still sell the iPhone 8, for people who can't quite afford the iPhone X. That and the new facial recognition technology will make it more difficult to purchase a used iPhone, which is what my kids do. -via reddit

Inspiration, motivation, and industry jargon- that's the secret to back-to-school, even if you've never been there before! Indrani Sen shares some tips for kindergarteners who are facing the big world of school and classmates of the first time, taken from the playbook of the high-powered tech industry. Follow these tips to becoming the Big Man On Campus by dominating the landscape, and watch the other students fall prey to your obvious leadership skills.

Dress like a boss

Avoid the friction of decision-making by choosing a personal kindergarten “uniform.” If you want to wear the same green sweatpants every day, do it.

Become a thought leader

Loudly explain the world to your classmates, and use the words “actually,” “apparently,” “technically,” and “as I was saying” frequently.

Be mindful of the signals you’re sending

They say don’t sweat the small stuff? No. Such. Thing. It’s ALL big stuff—which crayons you get, who goes to the potty first. Give an inch and they’ll think you’re weak. Go meltdown or go home. (Bonus: If your meltdown is big enough you may actually get to go home!)

There are a lot more of these tips at Quartz. Be sure to pass them along to your kindergartener, since he/she can't read yet. -via Swiss Miss

Today is the final day of New York Fashion Week, which is held in February and September every year. While the event is ostensibly a trade show for the clothing industry, it has become a showcase for celebrities, models, and celebrity models. The drama of high fashion is portrayed in movies that you think are exaggerations if you don't follow the real-life version. In honor of Fashion Week, you might want to check out some of the most entertaining movie depictions of fashion shows in all their glory at TVOM. With video evidence. 

When the French Revolution abolished feudalism, one of the new rights of citizens was the right to own possessions. They've taken this right very seriously ever since, unlike the Anglo-Saxon "finders keepers" ethic. In that light, Napoleon founded a Paris bureau for lost objects. It's actually called the Bureau of Found Objects (Le service des objets trouvés), as bureau director Patrick Cassignol says, “Because we do not know if they were lost or stolen. We know only that they have been found.” It's the bureau's mission to release these items only to their rightful owners. Hundreds of possessions that were left on trains, streets, and museums are sent to the bureau every day. Most are everyday objects: wallets, umbrellas, books, and purchases, but there are much weirder things stored, waiting to be claimed.

The aisles of shelves are systematically emptied in waves. The summer months bring sunglasses and tourist guidebooks, and autumn a rush of children’s schoolbags and lunchboxes. The shelves change with the times as well. “In the past, we had cufflinks and tie clips,” Cassignol told me. “Now we have USB sticks and scooters and even—what are those things—that slide?” He mimes the motion, and I supply the word: hoverboards.

One of those hoverboards has been carefully placed in the back of the warehouse, where a small corner has been converted into a private musée de l’insolite—a museum of the strange. Cassignol showed me the wedding dress. Legend has it that it was left in the back of a cab after a lovers’ quarrel. There is a five-foot-tall replica of a Parisian street lamp, most likely used on a movie set. There is a plaster statue of Jesus, which Cassignol, as a joke, once brought over to the church next door, announcing that he’d found its lost Saviour. There are medals, Legions of Honor, and military uniforms, a sabre from 1892 (never appraised, for fear it would be appropriated by a real museum), and a real human skull, found in the train station by the catacombs. “Now! Who knows what these are?” Cassignol asked, holding out a red pouch containing three shards of concrete. “Pieces of the World Trade Center,” he said. They were found in an abandoned suitcase shortly after 9/11 along with the bright-orange vest of an N.Y.C. transit employee.

The employees at the bureau are proud to reunite people with their personal possessions, which is often a joyous occasion. Read more about Paris' Bureau of Found Objects at the New Yorker. -via Metafilter

This is something that could only happen at a zoo or preserve. This took place at Cheetah Experience in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Kinji the Cheetah loves the meerkats at the conservation center, but the meerkats, well, they don't like anyone. And they can be pretty fierce for their size.

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See, the meerkats are protecting their family from a dangerous predator by attacking Kinji whenever he comes around. To Kinji, it's a fine little back scratch from his little friends. He just purrs and enjoys it. Dolph C. Volker of the center says,

A cheetah purr is quickly becoming my favorite sound in the world... so relaxing, calming, and something that penetrates the psyche down to the rudimentary soul for me. A purrs is designed to calm tensions; letting others around them know a friendly cat is present.

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The folks at How It Should Have Ended (HISHE) give us a couple of different alternative endings to Wonder Woman that would have worked, and I would have been happy with them. No matter; I was happy with the movie as it was, but still, there's that one part ...that I'm not going to say because it's a spoiler. But you shouldn't watch this video at all if you don't want to see spoilers from Wonder Woman. If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about. And you can go ahead and watch the video.

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This video has more than that, though. There was about five times that I thought the video was over, but there was more, because they delve into the whole DC Comics movie franchise. Or else they just kept thinking up new punchlines and wanted to use them all. -via Tastefully Offensive

You don't need soap that smells like eucalyptus, goat's milk, or even roses. Soap gets you clean, and maybe gets a laugh from someone who gets a flavor from the Whiskey River Soap Company. Check out the description of their new Grammar Police Soap.

Just wanted to shoot a quick message to let you know how impressed we all are that you finally figured out the difference between your and you're, thanks to Facebook trolls. True, it was something the rest of us learned in first grade, but what the hell. Welcome to the club, smarty pants. But as a club member, you now have to quit whining about everyone else's grammatical errors. Trust me, you're still making some.

They also note that it actually smells like a jelly donut. That's different. But there are plenty of other flavors, like soap for First World Problems, Frenemies, #Blessed People, Awkward Moments, Crazy Exes, Ceepy Uncles, and more.