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RWe8 TIL When Disney bought LucasFilm, they also gained access to the “Holocron” created by Lucas. It contains lists of “17,000 characters in the Star Wars universe inhabiting several thousand planets over a span of more than 20,000 years.”
YB4x TIL that Graham Chapman from Monty Python asked John Cleese to say “fuck” at his memorial service, just so he would be the first to do so. Cleese also started his eulogy with excerpts from the “Dead Parrot Sketch”, and at the end all the Pythons sang “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life”.
vPR1j TIL during the 1990's, Volkswagen sold three special editions of the Golf as part of sponsoring three rock bands' European tours: The Golf Pink Floyd Edition, the Golf Rolling Stones Edition, and the Golf Bon Jovi Edition.
R7yaj TIL that Chris Matheson, one of the co-writers of the Bill and Ted franchise, is the son of legendary sci-fi author Richard Matheson (I Am Legend).
kOX5g TIL that the first nuclear explosion almost occurred by accident in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Dr. Richard Feynman, a physicist who was working on the Manhattan Project, discovered that the military's "need to know" security resulted in a dangerous amount of uranium nitrate being stored with uranium-235.