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TIL before becoming famous as a member of Monty Python's Flying Circus, animator Terry Gilliam provided voices on two albums by Frank Zappa: Freak Out! (1966) and Absolutely Free (1967)

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5Yl68 TIL of an ongoing soviet fox domestication experiment that selectively bred for 'friendliness'. After a few generations the foxes had other surprising traits like better social skills, larger litter sizes, curlier tails, droopier ears and showed skeletal changes (making them look 'cuter', like dogs)
nWxgG TIL that some of the stones used in the creation of Stonehenge were bluestones from the Preseli Hills in western Wales and may have been chosen for their acoustic properties.
bjEN TIL Disney animators supposedly slipped a single frame of a naked woman into a film to see if Walt could catch it. There are many variations, but one states that Walt continued watching, and when it finished, asked, “Whose idea was it to add the naked woman?” and fired all those responsible.
x6Jo TIL That the first animal launched into orbit, Laika, was found as a stray wandering the streets of Moscow. Soviet scientists assumed that such animals had already learned to endure conditions of extreme cold and hunger
0wg8N TIL that Boric Acid, a common insecticide, is less toxic to humans than ordinary table salt