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TIL: Monty Python and the Holy Grail's $319,000 budget was bankrolled by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Elton John, and Jethro Tull.

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l76GV TIL that in the Victorian era, women wore crotchless panties and urinated in gravy boat-like vessels called “bourdalous”
4XVjX TIL the naturalist William Buckland spent much of his life trying to eat every animal possible to see how it tasted. He grew fond of eating Mice on toast, while His least favorite meals were that of mole, and bluebottle flies.
1Wrr TIL that Snorri Thorfinnsson, born between 1004 and 1013 in present day Newfoundland, was the first person with European parents to be born in North America
M9EA TIL that North Korea had a show called “Let’s trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle”
a1Mb TIL Bruce Lee had to flee Hong Kong for the US after he got into a street fight with the son of an organized crime leader.