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TIL that Monty Python sued ABC over their censorship of season 4 of their show. ABC had cut punchlines and entire characters. The judge and jury watched two versions of a season 4 episode; a BBC one they laughed at, and an edited ABC one which no one laughed at. The judge ruled in ABC’s favour.

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pYl8p TIL that one night in 1968, a severely-intoxicated Jim Morrison crashed a jam session between Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin by grabbing her by the hair and slamming her to the ground. In response, Janis broke a bottle over his head, and the three wrestled on stage. All three would be dead by 1971.
7raaO TIL Will Smith got so attached to Sam the German Shepherd in the movie "I am Legend" he begged the owner to let him buy her.
gMObb TIL many of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings of the female reproductive system got details wrong. Due to the rarity of female cadavers, he extrapolated from animals, with the resulting drawings of the female reproductive organs resembling those of animals more than humans.
6985m TIL that if all the world’s bacteria were laid end-to-end, they would reach 10 billion light-years in length. However, at 75 times thinner than a human hair, it would still be invisible to the naked eye. The length could wrap the Milky Way more than 20,000 times, creating a 2cm wide visible ribbon.
gMdaA TIL that Volvo opened up the patent for three-point seatbelt cause "it had more value as a free life saving tool than something to profit from"