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TIL there has only ever been 167 featured cast members of Saturday Night Live

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b6X57 TIL of spy novels that were so accurate that politicians read them to learn about the real world. Real spies told Gérard de Villiers—creator of the popular French "SAS" series—of their secret acts, then enjoyed reading about them in fictionalized form.
Yr6A TIL Cats ‘play’ with their prey to ensure that the prey is weak enough to be killed without endangering the cat.
MePJm TIL that despite being considered a classic, the 1959 Porgy and Bess film is not available on home media and only a handful of prints exist because the Gershwins, who wrote the opera it's based on, hated the movie and wanted it destroyed.
OGndX TIL Pink Floyd's song "Is There Anybody Out There?" features dialogue from the 1967 Gunsmoke TV episode 'Fandango'. The actress who asks, "Is it unsafe to travel at night?" is Diana Muldaur, who played doctors in the original Star Trek series and Dr. Pulaski in ST:Next Generation.
v4G4 TIL a town in Ireland hosts a fair in which a goat is crowned king for 3 days and hoisted on a 40 foot pedestal.