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TIL Bill Murray’s brother Brian has 60 more acting credits that he does (141 to 81).

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vDRL TIL there is a language called Boontling spoken only in the small Northern California town of Boonville. It is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, Pomo Indian and Spanish.
LkV1d TIL - 6 lenses were specially designed for the mission to the moon that were capable of photographing in the extreme low-light conditions of space, but 3 more of the same lens were sold to Stanley Kubrick for his candlelit film, Barry Lyndon. The owner of the lens company made one more for himself.
GAynN TIL that the first known vending machine was created in ancient Egypt by Hero of Alexandria and dispensed holy water after inserting a coin.
R99a TIL when Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.
EgM07 TIL about the Murder of Lynette White which happened in 1988, initially three men Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller were convicted of her murder but later had their convictions overturned through appeal. Jeffrey Gafoor would later be convicted in 2003 for her murder thanks to DNA.