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TIL Monty Python and the Life of Brian would have never been made without £2 million in financing from George Harrison

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4kd46 TIL about the drafting tool known as a "french curve", which can let a person draw smooth curves of basically any desired curvature depending on the scale. It's a tool where you don't need any complicated measurements, and has a very large amount of uses from architecture to fashion!
wobv8 TIL the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con sold an "invisible jet" (one of Wonder Woman's vehicles); Mattel intended it as a joke, and the package was just an empty plastic bubble, but the "toy" ended up being a big hit at the con
gr9Q7 TIL about the Hoover Dam Tragedy. The project's first recorded fatality was surveyor J.G. Tierney, who drowned on December 20, 1922, while searching for an ideal dam site. Thirteen years to the day, on December 20, 1935, the last man to die during construction was Tierney's son, Patrick W. Tierney.
xym5 TIL there is a pet penguin named La La in Japan. Everyday he walks into town by himself with a backpack and collects fish from the local fish market.
8a8JV TIL: Fashion houses would send handbags from their rivals to Snooki in a bid to damage their reputations.