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TIL that Monty Python inspired not only the word “spam”, but also the names of 7 asteroids, a programming language, a species of lemur, and a mutant gene in flies.

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wLKV1 TIL Mississippi was the last state to officially abolish slavery in 2013. Two medical school colleagues saw the movie “Lincoln” and got curious about the ratification of the amendment. After noticing the oversight, they pushed for the completion of the ratification.
d8Xb7 TIL that a Serbian flight attendant once fell 10,160 meters (33,330 ft) without a parachute and survived.
KYbjG TIL that Earth's atmosphere is leaking. Every day, around 90 tonnes of material escapes from our planet's upper atmosphere and streams out into space.
lYPG TIL that the entire GoldenEye 007 game on N64 is only 12 MB.
MRra TIL in 1995 during a White House visit Russian president Boris Yeltsin was found drunk on Pennsylvania Avenue in his underwear trying to hail a cab to go get pizza