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TIL that the the music underneath the “Brian Islam and Brucie” cartoon in the Monty Python skit “The Refreshment Room at Bletchley” (episode 9) is “Banjoreno,” by the Dixieland Jug Blowers, and it is on YouTube and Apple Music

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0omy TIL Despite basing ‘O Brother, Where art Thou?’ on The Odyssey, neither of the Coen Brothers had ever read the Epic and were only familiar with the plot through adaptations and pop culture references.
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