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TIL that the rabbit in Monty Python and the Holy Grail wasn't a random piece of comedy. It was inspired by actual medieval manuscripts

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Lk4jQ TIL of Jean de Breiteuil, a late 60's UCLA student and heroin dealer to major musicians of the day. In addition to being a main supplier to a young Keith Richards, he was with Janis Joplin a few days before her death in Los Angeles, and Jim Morrison died in Breituil's bathtub in Paris in 1971.
PYwLG TIL Napoleon's penis was cut off in an autopsy shortly after his death in 1821. It was purchased by John K. Lattimer in 1977, and is still held in his family, who keep it as a private item. It was described as similar to a "piece of leather or a shriveled eel".
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