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TIL George Harrison donated a million pounds to help produce Monty Pythons Life of Brian simply because he wanted to see the film

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BrPYL TIL that the TIE fighters in Star Wars were named that way because George Lucas thought they looked like bow ties.
gGl9 TIL of a study measuring whether the tiredness/hunger of a judge affected the prospects of getting parole. At the beginning of a session, a prisoner had a 65% chance of being parolled, the authors found. This declined to almost zero by the end of a session, and leaped back to 65% after a break.
VB0vQ Today I learned that the only other animal species that generally prefers to have sex in private is a bird called the Arabian Babbler
6ExyY TIL Sheep and goats are being used for weed control in difficult to reach areas, and to keep vegetation down from around runways, discouraging wildlife from gathering and causing danger to aircraft. They will eat noxious weeds as an environmentally friendly alternative to herbicides in city parks.
E1GlP TIL in 1942, as Japanese torpedoes slowly sank the U.S.S. Lexington, then the second-largest aircraft carrier in the Navy’s arsenal, the crew abandoned ship - but not before breaking into the freezer and eating all the ice cream.