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TIL ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian’ was single-handedly funded by Beatle member George Harrison after EMI Films withdrawing funds

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YparB TIL that pricetags are a recent concept invented by the Quakers who believed it was morally wrong to charge different prices to different customers for the same product
XDOk TIL, that Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.
bW84 TIL McDonald’s in 2008 saved $278,850,000 by removing one of the two slices of cheese from the McDouble/Double cheeseburger.
QJeNL TIL that Pharrell Williams was in the Hollaback Girl Official video
xV1lw TIL that Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle attended a dinner party held by an editor looking for content. They each promised to contribute to his magazine. The results of that evening? The Picture of Dorian Gray and the second, franchise-cementing Sherlock Holmes novel The Sign of Four.