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TIL John Lennon loved a Beatles parody (The Rutles) by Monty Python's Eric Idle so much he refused to hand back the preview tape

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NbBe TIL An experiment on worms survived the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and their descendents were flown to the space station in 2011 by Space Shuttle Endeavor.
nedkW TIL about The Battle for Castle Itter, near the end of WWII, which saw US soldiers, French POWs, and renegade German soldiers fighting on the same side to hold the castle against an SS tank division.
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