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TIL Sacha Baron Cohen, acting as his Ali G character, interviewed a British PM and offered him a ‘joint’–which the PM accepted and smoked on the spot.

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gMEo7 TIL Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp was the least terrible way to die.
wxZM TIL while writing Hot Fuzz Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright referred to the supermarket manager, Simon Skinner as being played by a “Timothy Dalton type” actor before thinking to ask Dalton himself to be in the film. To their surprise Dalton had loved Shaun of the Dead and signed on for the role.
EA8w TIL: 87 years ago, there was a day that the BBC had no news to report. So they just played piano music.
v144L TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
KOadJ TIL that the F-Word in English likely stems from the Latin word Pugnare, which means to Hit as opposed to common misconception of Fornication Under the Command of King