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TIL George Harrison funded Monty Pythons Life Of Brian because he just wanted to see the movie!

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NNBN TIL that the Soviet Union had a children’s program at 8:30 every weeknight that would end with a lullaby at 9:00 telling kids it’s time to go to bed. This program still airs to this day in Russia.
pYvmO TIL Dr. Lazarus' catchphrase, "By Grabthar's Hammer..." from Galaxy Quest (1999), was written as a temp line in the script. The plan was to replace "Grabthar" with something less comical, but the line stuck as the production crew started using it around their offices and had it printed on t-shirts.
o4d7 TIL Kim Il Sung developed a calcium deposit the size of a baseball on the back of his neck. Because of it, he was only photographed from the front and citizens were jailed for mentioning it to each other.
4kk5X TIL fewer than 100,000 British people are older than Queen Elizabeth (96). She is the only monarch 85% of her subjects have ever known.
ERad TIL Researchers in Sweden developed a blood test that accurately detects cancer 96 percent of the time and classifies the type of cancer correctly 71 percent of the time.