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TIL that the first non-stop UK to Canada flights were RAF Canberras carrying BBC recordings of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, so that Canadians were able to watch it the same day it happened.

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Wk4OY TIL that Robert Forrester was originally cast as the lead in Larry Cohen's horror film God Told Me To (1976), but was fired by Cohen because he wouldn't stop chewing gum during his scenes.
0wPJR TIL that this is what animals that exist today would look like if drawn based on their bones - just like dinosaurs are
R5wO8 TIL That even though Dalton Trumbo is known to be the creator of 'Roman Holiday' the son of the man who fronted the script (Trumbo was blacklisted) refused to turn over the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay to Trumbo's widow in 1993.
6EG48 TIL After a stable boy misspelled the name of a thoroughbred Potatoes, the horse was named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os. In 27 years Potoooooooo won 30 races and sired 5 winners.
grmgD TIL about The Stoned Ape theory, which hypothesizes that apes might have consumed psilocybin mushrooms that kick started rapid brain evolution.