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TIL wild marijuana grows all over Northern Japan.
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TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who’d accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle’s briefcase out of a window because he mistook it for a bomb, and criticised Terry Gilliam’s table manners because he was American.
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TIL the actress who plays Phyllis in The Office was once an NFL cheerleader
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TIL the Roman emperor Nero took a liking to a young boy named Sporus, who he had castrated and married because he bore a resemblance to the emperor’s former wife, who Nero had allegedly murdered. After Nero’s death, Sporus took his own life out of humiliation.
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TIL a 1988 UK government ban required news stations to overdub IRA speeches with an actor speaking in a neutral tone of voice.
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TIL Bribes, Kickbacks, Stolen Items, and money from illegal activities all count as taxable income in the US