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TIL that Graham Chapman from Monty Python asked John Cleese to say “fuck” at his memorial service, just so he would be the first to do so. Cleese also started his eulogy with excerpts from the “Dead Parrot Sketch”, and at the end all the Pythons sang “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life”.

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awlYA TIL that Tolkien wrote yearly letters to his children as if they were from Father Christmas. They started off as simple Happy Christmas letters but grew more complex including a polar bear sidekick, the man on the moon, goblins, snow-elves, pictures, and he even developed an Arktik language.
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Oo7re TIL that the word “hope” (Expectation of something desired; desire combined with expectation) has been around for over 1000 years
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