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TIL the port city of Byblos in Lebanon is reputed to be the world's oldest continually inhabited city, which has been around for the last 7,000 years

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rodd TIL The actor who played Darth Vader, David Prowse, stopped learning his lines after learning his voice would be dubbed over. Instead, he would improvise lines, sometimes speaking complete gibberish, forcing his co-stars to respond as if he had said the correct line.
neDr7 TIL "The Producers" Broadway show on Curb Your Enthusiasm which stars Larry David and David Schwimmer is a real Broadway show written by Mel Brooks which adaptation of his 1968 film features fading producer Max Bialystock.
X8kR TIL the American pint is 95ml smaller than the British pint
OPXY TIL that people, especially the youth, have been perceived by older generations as “ruining” the English language for centuries.
JMeB TIL that a nomadic man travels the Pacific Northwest in a short bus offering free tea and friendship to anyone who will sit and converse with him in or around his bus.