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TIL Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club, prefers the movie version to his own novel.

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5Y7MB TIL in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", in newspaper reports about the fraudulent "winner" of the fifth golden ticket in Paraguay, the man pictured is real-life Nazi Martin Bormann; the joke by the director was that he had fled like many other Nazis to South America.
R5wy6 TIL Since the 1960s there have been more pieces composed for the recorder than in all the centuries before, despite its golden age being in the baroque and Renaissance. The Mandalorian features soundtrack of a trio of bass recorders composed by Ludwig Göransson
kJBj1 TIL That Jacques Cousteau helped in the search for oil off the coast of Abu Dhabi by collecting rock samples.
EdEw TIL there was chinese herbalist who, some believed, lived to be 256 years old
X0e1E TIL the Tolkien Estate sued Dungeons & Dragons for using the words dragon, dwarf, elf, ent, goblin, hobbit, orc, balrog, and warg. As a result, all but hobbit, ent, and balrog were ruled as public domain.