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TIL Christopher Lee (Saruman in Lord of the Rings, and Count Dooku in Star Wars) played and sung in several heavy metal albums, including a collection of Christmas carol covers.

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XlGX TIL debuting in 1979 as a one-time, 13-part series, “This Old House” was one of the earliest home improvement shows. It was initially controversial among building contractors, and the cast was afraid that they were giving away secrets of the building trades.
YkOG TIL Playboy refused to print Richard Thompson’s list of best songs of the millennium because he took the task literally and chose songs dating back to 1068
ZZ6Y TIL The sum of odd numbers starting at 1 is always a square number.
4ZOw TIL in 2004, there were three major computer virus authors at “war” with each other. They were the Netsky, Bagle and Mydoom worms. Netsky was most famous for comments within the code insulting the authors of the other viruses and, in some cases, routines that removed versions of the other viruses.
W7EAA TIL of British General Charles “No-flint” Grey. Grey defeated several American armies in stealth attacks, using his favoured tactic of having his men remove the flints from their muskets and attack enemies using their bayonets alone.