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TIL: British rock legends funded the production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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YpXJP TIL: Astronaut groupies in Florida were nicknamed "Cape Cookies". Infidelity was rife; wives had to maintain a perfect facade. Only 7/30 astro-marriages in the 60s survived. Alan Shepherd (first american in space), Pete Conrad (3rd man on the moon) and Dick Gordon (Apollo 12) formed the Go-Go crew.
GYZ44 TIL that historically, black dyes were the hardest to make. Brilliant colours or heavily-decorated clothes were legally restricted to the nobility, so successful merchants would show off their wealth by wearing all-black clothes
6dpm TIL that some ancient sling bullets excavated from the city of Athens, Greece were inscribed with the word “ΔΕΞΑΙ” (dexai), which translates to “catch!”
v1EX7 TIL that German shoe companies Adidas and Puma were started by two brothers, who became business rivals after an argument drove them apart. They never spoke to each other again.
XDWX TIL In 2009, a retired policeman called Geraint Woolford was admitted to Abergale Hospital in north Wales and ended up next to another retired policeman called Geraint Woolford. The men weren’t related, had never met and were the only two people in the UK called Geraint Woolford.