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TIL Brad Pitt, while playing Achilles in Troy, injured his Achilles Tendon, delaying production for several weeks

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w9Qo TIL in 2004, doctors treating a virginal Japanese woman discovered an ovarian tumor that had grown into the form of a doll and had a brain, eye, spinal nerve, ear, teeth, thyroid gland, bone, bone marrow, gut, trachea, and blood vessels.
rNpa0 TIL to help finance the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, producers secured funding from Led Zeppelin, Elton John, and Pink Floyd. The British comedy was first released 50 years ago this week, in April 1975.
BrGKr TIL that before enlisting in the navy, John F. Kennedy had a brief stint at Stanford business school before dropping out, commenting that he “had become very fond of Stanford. Everyone is friendly—the gals are quite attractive—and it’s a very good life.”
E1Vgo TIL that during World War 2, 18 American shipyards produced 2,710 Liberty ships (a type of cargo ship), a rate of 3 ships every 2 days. Each ship took an average of just 42 days to complete.
4kArJ TIL: currently less than 40% of Iranians self-identify as Muslims