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TIL "your mother is a hamster" and other lines from Monty Python and the Holy Grail were used in Game of Thrones

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R7Ly6 TIL shipping magnate Malcom McLean built the high speed SL-7 cargo ships only to see the '73 Oil Crisis increase fuel costs tenfold, forcing them from service. Next he bet the fate of his company on the extremely fuel efficient Jumbo Econships, only to see oil prices crash. US Lines went bankrupt.
neQPG TIL some of the slaves freed from Charleston SC during the civil war organized a March at a race track where union soldiers had died in what is known as the first memorial day observance (a year before other states, and 3 years prior to the first national observance).
4XbJ TIL that ARTIE, the strongest man in the world, does the voice of KAHN on king of the hill, and he’s not even asian
WKbL TIL the Netherlands experienced a ‘tulip mania’ in 1637. Before the bubble collapsed, a single bulb could sell for 10-times the annual income of skilled worker
9YbyG TIL Mosquitoes pee on us. As they take in a blood meal, they urinate to dispose of the waste products.