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TIL that in 1971, the original tapes for Monty Python were almost erased and destroyed by the BBC. This was intended as a cost saving measure to reuse the tapes. Terry Gilliam bought them all and saved them.

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OGQRe TIL that in 1963, the British army tested how long a WWI Vickers Machine Gun could fire. It fired 5 Million Rounds, Firing Continously for Seven Days, an Average of 500 Rounds Per Minute for 10 000 Minutes.
D1jWp TIL I learned the Metallica bought the rights to the movie "Johnny Got His Gun." This was to use clips of it in their 1988 Song "One" without having to pay copyright to show it.
X0rGj TIL that the Isles of Scilly and the Netherlands were in a bloodless war for 335 years, which officially ended in 1986
d8dOB TIL in 1926 Agatha Christie went missing for 10 days prompting a massive manhunt. She was hiding in a hotel dealing with her husband divorcing her.
kZ4B TIL that in 1961 Belgians, with CIA involvement, ordered the murder of a democratically elected Prime Minister of Congo who just wanted for the Congolese to regain the natural resources still being under foreign control since the colonial times