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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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eb86 TIL Cheddar cheese is naturally lactose free; due to the natural process of making aged cheese, liquid whey separated from the milk is removed, and is why many aged cheeses contain little to no lactose (Cheddar, Asiago, Parm, Swiss, and more)
OG5YY TIL pistol Peter maravich, NBA player, died of heart failure at age 40 due to a congenital heart defect where he was missing his left coronary artery (the artery that supplies the heart muscle fibers with blood); his right coronary was grossly enlarged to compensate
Ep6p TIL that according to a joint study conducted by Northwestern and Princeton Universities, the United States is not a democracy, but is officially an oligarchy.
pKRb TIL That a peer reviewed psychological study was done on internet trolls, and it shows that they really are horrible people.
e0vB6 TIL that Nicolas Cage was officially cast as Superman for a cancelled 1997 film. The movie, Superman Lives, was set to be directed by Tim Burton