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TIL that the characterization of Jack Sparrow is based off Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards

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j6eNX TIL Hezekiah's Tunnel is a collection of tunnels in the rock beneath Jerusalem. It was built around 700 BCE to prepare for a siege by the Assyrians. Some of them are still used.
6EGa8 TIL that Alexandre Dumas (Author of The Three Musketeers, etc.) was the son of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, hero of the French Wars of Revolution and the highest ranking officer of African descent ever to serve in a European army
6EyXm TIL there was 128,000 square kilometres (49,000 sq mi; 32,000,000 acres) of irrigated lawn in the US, three times the area of irrigated corn
pY5Pp TIL that a fake software company duped over 200K people with fake university degrees in a elaborate scheme employing 2000 people
YpGP7 TIL the directors of Airplane! auditioned numerous voice actors for the opening red zone/white zone scene, disliking all of them. They ended up tracking down the married couple who originally recorded the announcements that were used at LAX in 1980. Their voices are in the finished film.