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TIL Martin Short, Steve Martin and Tom Hanks have regular ‘colonoscopy parties’ where they prep together overnight and share one car on the ride to get their colonoscopies the next day

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X04eE TIL that during Dean Smith's tenure as head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels, 96.6% of his players received their degrees and he also helped pioneer desegregation by recruiting their first black scholarship player, Charlie Scott.
j6pBp TIL that when Dylan Thomas (the Welsh poet) died, his widow had his body shipped from New York to Wales. While they were under way, she discovered a group of sailors unwittingly using the coffin as a card table. She decided not to say anything as she thought her husband would have liked it.
0wDoL TIL about "Теоретики" ("The Theorists") a Belarusian comedy series about a group of nerdy scientists who become friends with a blonde waitress. When it was pointed out that the concept, titles, sets, costumes and scripts were stolen from the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," the actors quit.
m1LRE TIL that the Richter Window is the stained glass window in the south transept of the Cologne Cathedral. It's made of 11.263 glass squares -each 9.6×9.6cm/3.78×3.78in- in 72 different colors and covers a surface of 106m²/1141ft².
XEy5j TIL when Jerry Lewis taught film directing at USC in the late ‘60s, George Lucas was one of his students and Steven Spielberg audited some of his classes. Lewis later screened Spielberg's short film Amblin' (1968) and told his students, "That's what filmmaking is all about."