Post * no5d — Curious Curator

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TIL That Monty Python and the Holy Grail was funded by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Elton John and Chrysalis Records, who were all looking for ways of creating tax losses.

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ZpDOp TIL Robin Williams was given a role by Star Trek: The Next Generation writers as a man named Berlinghoff Rasmussen for the episode "A Matter of Time" where he would play a fast-talking car salesman type time traveler who turns out to be a con man. Williams had to decline in order to film 'Hook'

Ooxl1 TIL that since sleep talking is not a product of a conscious or rational mind, it is usually inadmissible in court.

4XyM5 TIL Bruce Willis appearance on Friends "came from a bet he made with Matthew Perry on the set of their film Whole Nine Yards" and that he would appear for free.

dDjyQ TIL The fastest anyone has ever ran 60 meters is by Su Bingtian who ran a 6.29. This was done the middle of a 100m sprint, so the official fastest 60m sprint is held by Christian Coleman at 6.34 seconds.

8eKpV TIL Albert Kahn revolutionized factory construction with reinforced concrete in 1903. By 1929, his firm trained Russian architects, and by 1937 he had designed 19% of U.S. industrial factories. As of 2020, about 60 of his buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.