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TIL that Mia Sara (Sloane in Ferris Bueller's Day Off) has been married twice. Her first husband was Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery. Her second, Brian Henson, son of Muppets creator Jim Henson

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VBKMB TIL Raymond Loewy, famed for his design of the Coca-Cola bottle among other work, helped design Skylab. He did so with a few principles in mind: eight hours of daily solitude, meals facing each other, and smooth partitions
xVZk0 TIL before The Who chose to do the "obelisk" cover of Who's Next, proposed cover ideas included a naked overweight woman with The Who members' faces in place of her genitalia.
k9dd TIL the animation segment in Bowling for Columbine that followed Matt Stone’s interview was made to look like it was by the South Park creators, which angered them and led to Michael Moore being parodied in Team America: World Police
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gaQy TIL that the same Muslim family (the Nuseibeh or Nusaybah clan) have been the door openers at the Christian Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for over 1300 years. They have acted as both custodians of the church and as mediators between the various Christian sects represented there.