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TIL: "heavy metal" music's origin began with the songwriter getting a Ford Falcon

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b9WV0 TIL Viking military tactics succeeded mainly because they disregarded the conventional battlefield tactics, methods, and customs of the time. They ignored unspoken rules, like not attacking holy sites. To the contrary Vikings intentionally targeted religious sites for their vulnerability and wealth.
B5Gd TIL ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ was single-handedly funded by Beatle member George Harrison after EMI Films withdrawing funds
8eyKG TIL Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) is the most expensive independent film ever made with a production budget of around $180 million. Although it grossed $226 million worldwide, it was considered a box-office bomb due to its high production and advertising costs.
woK87 TIL that 51% of births are male because female fetuses are more likely to die during pregnancy
kORZe TIL in 1991 a youth group in Denmark wrote to Gorbachev of Russia to ask for a free submarine. He said yes, and 3 years later they received a massive 76 meter (250 ft) submarine.