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TIL Ghostbusters was written over 3 weeks in a bomb shelter on an island off Massachusetts.

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7rJgZ TIL Paul McCartney managed to make an appearance on Pink Floyds' album Dark Side of the Moon. At the end of track “Eclipse”, a passage from an orchestral version of the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” can be heard; the song was playing in the background at the Abbey Road studio during this recording!
l76XG TIL M. Night Shyamalan was raised Hindu, but attended a private Roman Catholic grammar school. A teacher once became upset because he "got the best grade in religion class [even though he] wasn't Catholic".
5Y5A8 TIL during the filming of Matilda, Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman; who played Matilda’s parents; would take Mara Wilson on outings with their family to help the actress cope with her mother’s battle, and eventual death, from cancer.
8aAv4 TIL on 1st April 1996 Taco Bell spent $300k on ads claiming that they purchased the Liberty Bell and named it Taco Liberty Bell, and achieved $25 million in free publicity. The White House Press Secretary got on the joke, saying the Lincoln Memorial was turned by Ford into Lincoln-Mercury Memorial.
W7o8B TIL Christiaan Huygens was one of the first astronomers to apply mathematical principles to the design of optics rather than trial and error, and his telescope could study Saturn's ring system. The Huygenian eyepiece he invented in the 17th century is still in use today