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TIL producer Lee Mendelson was working on a Peanuts special when—while driving over the Golden Gate Bridge—Vince Guaraldi's Cast Your Fate To The Wind came on the radio. He was so moved, he immediately booked lunch with Guaraldi & asked him to score the music for A Charlie Brown Christmas.

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QNaxL TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien began a sequel to Lord of the Rings, called The New Shadow, about Middle Earth quickly forgetting about the War of the Ring, with the elites of Gondor beginning to support the evils of Mordor
E1m9x TIL the 1980 American musical fantasy film Xanadu was the inspiration for the original Golden Raspberry Awards (but it lost to Can't Stop The Music).
dGwB TIL that students at Oxford University are required to wear academic dress for all of their examinations - including a suit, gown, bowtie, and colour coded carnation. Students wear different gowns depending on their grades. Cambridge no longer has such dress for exams.
0w5wN TIL the word "eggcorn", defined by Merriam-Webster as "a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used in a seemingly logical or plausible way for another word or phrase", such as "all intensive purposes" instead of "all intents and purposes".
78kjx TIL: The US DoD invented a PHASR which is a non lethal laser rifle which serves to disorientate and blind the target. While blinding laser weapons were banned in 1995 by the UN, the PHASR was allowed as the effect was temporary. It was tested in New Mexico and the name derived from Star Trek.