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TIL in the USA, you are statistically about twice as likely to kill yourself rather than be murdered.

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5NeD TIL Monty Python’s movie, The Life of Brian, was funded solely by George Harrison of the Beatles after EMI backed out due to the subject matter.
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PYemL TIL that, as a child, Jack Black (real name Thomas Jacob Black) appeared in a commercial for the 1982 Atari videogame "Pitfall!"
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mx8NM TIL that while repairing a whale enclosure divers during the cold war heard a human-like voice saying "out, out, out," and got out of the water to see nobody. A beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech and attempted to communicate with them.