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TIL George Harrison financed the Monty Python film ‘The Life of Brian’, simply because he wanted to see it

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eEX6 TIL Astronaut Ed Mitchell said of his experience on the moon in 1971: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
QJ0Ak TIL that the first woman to run for President of the United States was Victoria Woodhull in 1872, 50 years before women could vote. She had Frederick Douglass as her running mate, and spent election day in jail due to being arrested for obscenity.
Z8ea4 TIL there is a Hebrew equivalent to the Yiddish phrase "oy vey" (a phrase expressing dismay or exasperation) - it's "oy vavoy"
LOV TIL Lincoln grew his beard after an 11-year-old girl wrote him a letter - “All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be President.”
KOyB4 TIL that the saying "when one door closes, another opens" is an Alexander Graham Bell quote, which he then followed by saying "but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."