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TIL that All six members of Monty Python expressed interest in playing Willy Wonka in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, but at the time they were deemed not big enough names for an international audience

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oBRjW TIL during the Hungarian revolution (against the Soviets), the Hungarians cut out the communist seal from their flag. This Hungarian flag with a hole in the center became a symbol of the revolution.
log5a TIL that the entire crew of the freighter "Edmund Fitzgerald" died because the ship sunk almost instantly.
696AZ TIL during WWII, RAF bomber command suffered a casualty rate of 59.1% and a fatality rate of 44.4%
YVeA TIL a nickel weighs EXACTLY twice as much as a penny.
E1JEX TIL that King Tutankhamun (14th Century BC Pharaoh) was entombed with a dagger of "extraterrestrial origin." Advanced spectrometry tests strongly suggest the iron, nickel, and cobalt contained in the blade are from a meteorite that crashed near the the Kharga Oasis about 200 km west of the Nile.