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TIL that Big Bird has a Mexican cousin named Abelardo Montoya, which appears on Plaza Sezamo, the Mexican co-production of Sesame Street

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ZRRv TIL Alec Guiness was one of the few cast members who believed that Star Wars would be a box office hit; he negotiated a deal for 2.25% of the gross royalties paid to the director, George Lucas, who received one fifth of the box office takings. This made him very wealthy in his later life
Je8 TIL that pure water is actually blue. Its color isn’t due to impurities, a reflection of the sky, or an artificially tinted backdrop
D1bog TIL that people will find an explanation more believable if you sprinkle it with irrelevant neuroscience jargon.
W8Oo TIL that in 1348 the Scots invaded the English because they were weakened by the plague. The Scots subsequently caught the plague themselves, went back to Scotland, and killed their own population
neN57 TIL that Marvel successfully argued in court that Mutants are not people and thus got to pay the lower rate on X-Men "toys" instead of the higher rate for dolls because they are not human.