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TIL it is illegal for 2 unmarried of opposite sex to live together in Florida. And Mississippi and Michigan too.

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kOkV7 TIL that George Harrison created a film production company to fund Monty Python's Life of Brian at a cost of £3 million, because he "wanted to see the movie"—later being described by Terry Jones as "the world's most expensive cinema ticket".
5VGDQ TIL The old cowboy song "Don't Fence Me In" was based on text by Robert Fletcher, a poet and engineer with the Department of Highways in Helena, Montana. It was 'songified' by Cole Porter, who bought the poem from Fletcher for $250.
m1YOO TIL Following World War One Canada sent 799 body parts extracted from soldiers back to Canada to be part of a museum. The museum was never built, instead the organs became teaching aids at McGill University before being destroyed around 1960.
Mjk7 TIL that Jacksonville, Fla., was the winter filming capital of the early US movie industry but conservative residents objected, a mayor was elected on anti-movie platform, and so the industry moved on to Southern California
gMlmW TIL that the oldest alliance in the world that is still in force is between England (later the UK) and Portugal, with the earliest treaty dating back to 1373.