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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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16RmD TIL the PGA Tour is a non-profit entity
BrWJx Til that on a hill overlooking the ocean in Otsuchi Town in northeastern Japan is a phone booth known as the "Telephone of the Wind". It is connected to nowhere, but people come to "call" family members lost during the tsunami of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.
XyPD TIL a hero of the Harlem Hellfighters routed 36 Germans single-handedly, while rescuing a fellow soldier and suffering 22 wounds at Argonne Forest…then died 10 years later, as a destitute alcoholic, after being denied disability and a purple heart.
Rep4 TIL that a captive beluga whale learned how to speak rudimentary English after 7 years in captivity; it was only known after a diver visiting his tank at night heard voices telling him to “get out” when no one else was in sight, it was actually the beluga whale.
OodNY TIL about Moss Hills, an entertainer aboard the cruise ship Oceanos who, after the ship began to sink in violent seas and most of the crew fled in panic, worked alongside fellow entertainers and the cruise director to help passengers evacuate. Not a single life out of the 550 passengers was lost.