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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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XbaD TIL the airplane which was featured in The Dark Knight Rises’ plane scene actually crashed with no survirors a year after the film was released
9YyVQ TIL President Eisenhower would watch almost any movie that featured cowboys except for ones with Robert Mitchum because of his arrest for marijuana possession. As soon as Ike saw Mitchum in a movie he would walk out.
p8KwZ TIL The Umbrella Academy comic was written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance
LQD0P TIL: 2 of 920 people survived the Jonestown Massacre. Hyacinth, who hid under her bed and Grover Cleveland Davis, who was 79 years old and hard of hearing. He slept unknowingly throughout the death assembly.
OdYa TIL that a New Orleans police officer committed an armed robbery murdering a uniformed policeman and two employees of a restaurant in the process. One employee hid in the freezer and was spared; the officer returned to “investigate” the crime, and was identified by the survivor as the shooter