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TIL director and writer of A Knight's Tale, Brian Helgeland, said that he intended to show what Geoffrey Chaucer (played by Paul Bettany) might have been doing that inspired him to write The Canterbury Tales during the six months in which he seems to have gone missing in 1372.

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pY7M8 TIL of HDCP an attempt to encrypt HDMI cables to prevent privacy
woKpM TIL Captain America co-creator Jack Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army during WWII, landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy. When a lieutenant found out he was a comics artist, he made Kirby a scout who would advance into towns and draw reconnaissance maps and pictures, an extremely dangerous duty.
9YE9m TIL in 1990 rap group 2 Live Crew’s album “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” was ruled obscene by a Florida judge and was subsequently banned. Record store owners and employees were arrested for selling the album.
6Nr8 TIL Yul Brynner had a TV ad after he died: “Now that I’m gone, I tell you: Don’t smoke. Whatever you do, just don’t smoke”
neVlP TIL about Luke "Milky" Moore. He abused a bank error to overdraft $1.5million and spent it on cars, drugs, and sex before he was caught and sent to jail. He successfully argued his own case and was released without having to pay any of it back.