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TIL Monty Python reunited for Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014) because they suddenly owed £800,000 pounds to Mark Forstater over Spamalot royalties. The ten shows were their first live ensemble performances in 34 years.

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vPGl4 TIL There is an unwritten rule of the use of adjectives which native English speakers follow, but don't realize it: “Adjectives in English absolutely have to be written in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun.”
rRk7e TIL in Japan ~%99 of people are cremated. After cremation, the family uses chopsticks to transfer the bones out of the ash and into an urn. This is the ONLY time is acceptable to pass anything from chopsticks to chopsticks. Doing such outside of a funeral can remind bystanders of a recent funeral.
WKy9 TIL that there are about two million saunas in Finland, enough for the entire finnish population to take a sauna at the same time
xGr1 TIL that Leland Stanford had the privilege of driving the Golden Spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad. Stanford had never used a sledgehammer, and he missed the spike.
MAEV TIL that Bart Simpsons hit song “Do the Bartman” was written by massive Simpsons fan, Michael Jackson.