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NXbye TIL that the Yamaha SR400/500 was in production mostly unchanged from 1978 to 2021
QMea TIL After his death in 1942, the archaeologist Flinders Petrie’s wife brought his head home to London on an aeroplane in a hat box on her knee.
aww5Z TIL the scene in Blazing Saddles in which a character knocks out a horse with a punch was inspired by a real life event in which Mel Brook's friend Sid Caesar knocked out a horse with a punch after it had thrown his wife off its back.
k7ZE TIL Graham Chapman of Monty Python was a Medical Doctor until he gave up his practice to concentrate on comedy.