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TIL Monty Python and the Holy Grail was funded in part by British rock stars including Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and Genesis

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ANp5n TIL The United States military invaded Canada in 1812. US lost
JpwV TIL that the chef’s hat (or toque) has 100 folds in it to represent the number of different ways the chef can cook an egg
DQome TIL that anthropologists have identified 7 'universal' moral rules found all around the world: help your family, help your group, return favours, be brave, defer to superiors, divide resources fairly, and respect others’ property.
10eD TIL that in the United Kingdom, there exists a satirical political party by the name of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Currently, it holds 7 seats in local governments and its official political position is “Sitting, Facing Forward”.
1alEP TIL it wasn't a single drug discovery that stopped people from dying of AIDS in the 1990s but the discovery that combining several drugs would each affect a different aspect of HIV and together force the virus into undetectable remission, called the "AIDS cocktail"