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TIL Monty Python's famous gag in Holy Grail of using coconuts for horse clops was NOT out of budget necessity, but was in fact the first idea they had which served as a starting point for the film.

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0AXM TIL a German mathematician spent a decade writing a 200 page manuscript about drawing a regular 65537 sided polygon with a compass and a straightedge
aOVN TIL there’s a town in the US that is “surrounded” by Canada. Since it only has a primary, school, high school students need to travel 40 minutes and cross international borders four times a day
loNpr Today I learned Mikhail Gorbachev did ads for Pizza Hut
LQOD0 TIL that Neil Young's Southern Man briefly plays in the background of Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama when they mention him (at about 0:54)
7r6Kb TIL of the Seven Sutherland Sisters, who had a combined length of 37 ft of hair and traveled the world as a curiosity and to promote their hair growth products. They grew up in poverty, made millions, lived an extravagant and squandering lifestyle, and the last of them died destitute.