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TIL Skyfall Lodge, the Scottish ancestral home of James Bond which features heavily in the movie Skyfall, was just a wooden framed set located on a UK Mininstry of Defence site in Surrey, England.

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jNGBn TIL John Williamas had no plans to compose the soundtrack for the Star Wars series. When he was writing for the first one, he was told there wouldn't be a second moving. Following the success of the movie, they told him that a second movie was cooking, and thus, the themes and leitmotifs were born!
7RWX TIL In 1965, a U.S. Army sergeant drunkenly deserted his company, wandered into North Korea, and was forced to be an interpreter, actor, teacher, and father by the North Korean regime until his release..wait for it..39 years later, in 2004.
O4le TIL approximately 38% of English-language slang words for vomit come from Australia.
vP8GK TIL that the debut album of Robson & Jerome (a singing duo made up of actors Robson Green and Jerome Flynn) held the record for selling 2 million copies in the UK in the fastest time, for nearly 20 years
5VB6P TIL In 2020, The North American Scrabble Players Association banned racial slurs and other offensive words from official play, a decision which was controversial among top players.