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TIL the ‘pirate accent’ is entirely based on the performance of Robert Newton in the film Treasure Island.

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pY9d8 TIL William Shatner and Adam West starred in a failed pilot called "Alexander the Great" which West called "one of the worst scripts I have ever read and it was one of the worst things I've ever done."
7rGrx TIL there is a city in New Mexico called "Truth or Consequences", which got its name after a radio show that turned 10 years old said it would air its anniversary program from the first city that renamed itself after the show
aw0AN TIL that, on the 1996 opening day of the Jurassic Park ride at Universal Studios Hollywood, Steven Spielberg boarded the ride but requested that he be let off before the 86 foot (26 m) drop.
9YnLr TIL President Jimmy Carter’s son smoked weed with Willie Nelson on the roof of The White House
KOP84 TIL in 2005 cannabis was found to convert cancerous cells in the lungs to a pre cancer state.