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TIL that prior to creating The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams appeared in two Monty Python sketches, the first being episode 42.

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mxW1M TIL the song “Buffalo Gals” was likely written in 1844 by a blackface minstrel nicknamed Cool White.
BEKd TIL that fourteen years after Wild Bill Hickok’s death, in 1900, an aging Calamity Jane arranged to be photographed next to his overgrown burial site. Elderly, thin and poor, her clothes were ragged and held together with safety pins.
awoD0 TIL that Christopher Jackson, who played George Washington in Hamilton, provided the singing voice of Chief Tui in Moana
Z8Vgp TIL in 1998 Bill O'Reilly wrote a novel about a tall, bitter, sexually predatory newsman who gets forced out of his job and starts murdering former colleagues who helped to ruin his career.
loJbr TIL of the marquis de Favras, who upon reading his death sentence, remarked "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes"