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TIL that one of Terry Jones' characters in Monty Python's Life of Brian - the crowd member who demands that Pilate 'Welease Woger' - is named in the script after the actor Bob Hoskins

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e0eak TIL that around the year 1500, Leonardo da Vinci designed a robot
BEax TIL the album Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd was in the Billboard Top 200 for a record of 736 weeks since its debut in 1973.
9Y7mr TIL Around 4% of people do not take surveys seriously and provide silly answers. Around 7% of Americans were 'not sure' if lizardmen were running Earth. Around 13% of Americans claimed a former president was anti-Christ. The Lizardman constant (around 4%) explains some of strange results in surveys.
515B TIL that according to one researcher, ancients such as Alexander the Great were sometimes buried in honey. After about a hundred years, candied corpses were supposedly dug up and eaten as medicine.
5ynn TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.