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TIL that nearly every top McDonald’s monopoly prize from 1995-2000 was fraudulently won by a group of insiders

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4XZYX TIL the iconic Jason Voorhees "whisper sound" in the Friday the 13th films is "ki" and "ma", shortened from "kill mommy"
JYYlj TIL The human nose can smell at least 1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000) different smells.
7lBb TIL Funds earned by Pink Floyd’s album “Dark Side of the Moon“, went towards funding “Monty Python and the Holy Grail“. The band were such fans of the show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” that they would halt recording sessions just to watch it.
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W71KN TIL that George Lucas' wife, Marcia Lucas, won an Academy Award for Best Film Editing in 1977 for Star Wars. George Lucas has won zero Academy Awards.