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TIL nearly all the castles depicted in Monty Python and the Holy Grail are actually Doune Castle from different angles

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Z8YJ4 TIL George Washington and his compatriots once ran up a bar tab that would be close to $15,000 in modern currency!
9YpxM TIL that toward the end of his career, acclaimed film director Sam Peckinpah, whose work includes The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country, and Straw Dogs, was so desperate for money as a result of his drug habit that he agreed to direct a movie based on the 1975 trucker novelty song "Convoy."
BAEK TIL Jack Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel’s Whiskey, died due to kicking a safe that wouldn’t open and later contracting blood poisoning.
wEJJ TIL there is a Superhero Supply store in Brooklyn with a Cape Fitting room with a wind tunnel. They also sell Oxygen Gum, Bottled Chaos and have an Invisibility Testing Center.
AD1gl TIL that getting a Bugatti's oil changed costs over $20,000, or about as much as a new Toyota Camry.