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TIL John Cleese of Monty Python was the first person to say “Shit” on British television.

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767r TIL Dermot Morgan, the star of Father Ted, died the day after filming the last episode of the show.
j6K1R TIL Operation Midnight Climax was a program by the CIA in the mid 50s that used prostitutes to lure unsuspecting men to apartments in New York and San Francisco to drug them with LSD to test whether the combination of sex and LSD might influence the men to reveal information the government wanted.
1GBV TIL Sweden has a nuclear bunker system under Stockholm that has some of the biggest servers hosted at. ex: Wiki leaks and The Pirate Bay.
VMoVp TIL Patrick Stewart largely changed the way people pronounce the word "data"
6vKw TIL there was a cancelled animated show called “Clone High” that was about a government ran high school. The students were clones of famous people, such as Abraham Lincoln, Joan of Arc, Mahatma Gandhi, Cleopatra, and John F. Kennedy.