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TIL The Muppet Show was filmed entirely in England because US networks rejected it.

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yVX4V TIL J.W Boucher, a Canadian, managed to get enlisted into the Union army during the american civil war on his 3rd attempt after he initialy got rejected as too young to serve. In 1917, at the age of 72, he lied about his age and managed to get enlisted into WW1, likely the oldest person to serve
lwnV TIL The Rolling Stone originally gave Nirvana’s Nevermind a 3-star rating in 1991. They now give it 5 stars and rank it as the 17th greatest album of all time.
x05 TIL the Yellow Power Ranger is dead
eYmk TIL Mel Brooks did not have a starring role in “Young Frankenstein” (which he directed and co-wrote with Gene Wilder) because Wilder wouldn’t let him, saying: “You have a way of breaking the fourth wall, whether you want to or not. I don’t want too much to be, you know, a wink at the audience.“
AN91B TIL in 590 the city of Rome was experiencing such a severe food shortage and refugee crisis, that Pope Gregory had the church operate as a relief organization. This included having goods from church-owned farmland being given away as alms and Gregory himself cooking meals to give to the needy.