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TIL The makers of Monty Python and the Holy Grail were struggling to raise the 2 million pounds needed, and had just about given up, when George Harrison offered to finance it. The reason he gave was that he wanted to see the movie.

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LkAXQ TIL that NFL coach Jon Gruden and actor Dean Norris (best known for playing Hank Schrader on "Breaking Bad") attended high school together in South Bend, Indiana.
6EkrJ TIL that platypus milk contains a milk protein that is has not been identified in any other animal . The protein was named 'Shirley Temple' in tribute to the former child-actor’s distinctive curly hair. It also has unique antibacterial properties and is undergoing research for fighting superbugs.
PYYon TIL that since 1983 the length of the meter is defined by the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
mxZlM TIL "ZIG-ZAG Man" of rolling papers fame is based on the story of a French North African soldier (Zouave) whose smoking pipe was shattered by a stray bullet during the battle of Sevastopol so he rolled his tobacco using a piece of paper torn from a musket cartridge.
R5oo6 TIL that among ‘Things Unexpectedly Named After People’, you have PageRank (after Larry Page), German chocolate cake, Price Club, Shrapnel, Main Street, (San Francisco), and Baker’s chocolate