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TIL Magical Mystery Tour was largely unscripted - The Beatles simply told the crew and cast to "be on the coach on Monday morning". The movie didn't even have a stunt driver - in the race scene, the bus was driven by Ringo.

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5LAr TIL of the “Stroke Belt”, a region of the South Eastern U.S. with unusually higher rates of diabetes, stroke and lung cancer than the rest of the country.
A6Dx TIL that Dr. Seuss wrote The Cat in the Hat to help combat illiteracy. 348 words were identified as being important to first-graders, which he was asked to narrow down to 250. Nine months later, Seuss used 236 of them to complete The Cat in the Hat
KObxR TIL the first alt-history novel about the Axis winning World War Two was published in 1937, two years before the war started
KYonJ TIL the US Department of Agriculture published guidance on how to dispose of horses with explosives [PDF]
PGDn TIL there is a prequel to “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” called “Halloween is Grinch Night”, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 1977.