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TIL Python, the programming language, was named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

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VMD6B TIL Brad Bird the creator of the 1999 film The Iron Giant was inspired to make the movie from the loss of his sister, who was shot and killed by her husband. The very end of the movie reads “For Susan”.
jNWWa TIL that Bill Hamilton developed modern jetboats since no existing boats could navigate the shallow, fast flowing rivers of New Zealand. He took his boats to the USA for demonstrations amidst criticism from the media. In 1960 his boats became the first and only boats to travel up the grand canyon.
J16Vj TIL The Zildjian cymbal company is 400 years old
N7Ma8 TIL that spiders can fly using Earth's electrical field. Spiders have flown 'two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.'
ylXw TIL that the national basketball team of New Zealand is called “The Tall Blacks”