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TIL when the Monty Python team was taken to Germany to find things to write comedy about there, they were taken straight from the airport to Dachau concentration camp

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X01bE TIL the Sioux believe the Great Spirit created a race of giants triple the size of men, who were arrogant and denied the existence of a Creator. The Great Spirit released a flood upon the world, higher than the mountains. When the giants were all dead he created humans, smaller and weaker.
oBPeo TIL blind from birth, Seve Fyffe, 67, began training at age six and now holds a fifth dan belt in Aikido. "…if someone was foolish enough to attack me they'd be in for a shock. I can fight up to six people at a time. The hardest is four because they are coming at you from four different directions”
5Vm9r TIL 'First, do no harm' is not part of the Hippocratic Oath
woyNM TIL that the film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, was the first feature film to be entirely color corrected by digital means.
VMg4G TIL two weeks after JFK's Eternal Flame was lit, it was extinguished accidentally by a group of Catholic schoolkids trying to sprinkle holy water.