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TIL the 1995 film 'Casino' contains about seven times more dialogue than the average movie

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mExP TIL that Winston Churchill, after being told that he could not drink in front of Saudi King due to the King’s religious beliefs, said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”
DQxYj TIL Duck is considered a red meat by culinary standards.
gM8w7 TIL about the "male idiot theory", where men are more likely to engage in risky behaviour without any apparent payoff.
KOZMB TIL when the movie The Death of Sta lin got banned in Russia, 58% of Russians from a poll by Public Research Center said they would watch the movie if the ban were lifted. The movie has been illegally downloaded around 1.5 million times over there
b6O8a TIL that Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, was the daughter of Lord Byron, the famous English poet