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TIL that David Hayter (voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid) co-wrote X-Men (2000) and X-2 (2003)

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OYQ1 TIL that the Sami people of Northern Finland have a unit of measurement called the ‘poronkusema’ - the distance a reindeer can walk before needing to urinate.
XEDQR TIL Monty Python and the Holy Grail was funded in part by British rock stars including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Genesis
Ood5R TIL until his death in 2020, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek displayed a C$49,000 bounced check on the wall of his house for his hosting duties on the 1981-82 Canadian-produced game show Pitfall, as a reminder of how his fellow Canadians did him dirty
a8Glb TIL Edgar Allan Poe is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre with his character C. Auguste Dupin, who preceded Sherlock Holmes by 46 years. In Sherlock Holmes's first story, Watson directly compares Holmes to Dupin.
xVnjb TIL about Salps - a jellyfish relative. They asexually reproduce chains of clones who are all female, which then detach and breed sexually. After giving birth to a single asexual offspring they become male, while the offspring starts the cycle over.