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TIL that William Peter Blatty, the author of "The Exorcist", spend over a year successfully posing as a Saudi Arabian prince while living in Los Angeles in the 1960s. He kept up the charade while appearing as a contestant on Groucho Marx's game show "You Bet Your Life".

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YkLd TIL after being arrested, Billy Milligan was discovered to have twenty-four different personalities, many of which allowed him to speak in different accents and languages, and exhibit talents such as painting, writing poetry, and playing a variety of instruments.
M5vK TIL that the series finale of MAS*H had an estimated 125 million viewers; the most for any TV show. It was also reported that 77% of the toilets in NYC were flushed in the 3 minutes following the end of the episode, the highest water usage at one given time in the city’s history.
rRndo TIL Inuits effectively teach their children to control their anger and emotions not with discipline, but through stories.
5jYn TIL that driving while drunk destroyed the Soviet spy network in the UK. After being arrested in London in 1971, Oleg Lyalin panicked and offered the names of every Russian spy. The UK government expelled 105 people from the country, and the USSR network in Britain “never recovered”.
n6Or TIL that possibly the most iconic of French foods, the Croissant, is actually Austrian.