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TIL Brian Helgeland, the director of A Knight's Tale, had the cast arrive in Prague a month early to rehearse & bond. Although Heath Ledger noted that it was mostly to bond, "we just spent a month drinking together. So rehearsals were just drinking & getting to know each other...we hit all the bars"

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kOkLB TIL a university maths professor helped a pig farmer prove in court that a hot air balloon startled his pigs causing them to fall into a ditch and die by using trigonometry and a photograph
ADxea TIL Norman Fell (Mr. Roper) was reluctant to leave Three's Company to do a spin-off, but producers persuaded him by promising him the Ropers would return to Three's Company if the new show did not last one year. One month after the one year contract obligation expired, The Ropers was canceled.
r8jy TIL the computer virus that infected Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2010 was set to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” at full volume at midnight.
4XeR TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
aw550 TIL "Plum Blossom Music" is the most widely spread classic Chinese instrumental music and was originally played on the flute by Huan Yin, the famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420). The music score was first recorded in Mysterious Music Scores compiled in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)