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Today I learned that I discovered an underrated YouTuber whose video had me cramping from laughter

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5YAa8 TIL Doune Castle in Scotland, where Monty Python filmed "Holy Grail" movie, rents coconut shells to tourists
78lYZ TIL Michel Fourmont, an antiquarian and French priest, enjoyed destroying antiquities and remnants of ancient Greek cities, including Sparta. Sent by Louis XV to find manuscripts, he turned to marble inscriptions which he defaced after copying them.
LkV1d TIL - 6 lenses were specially designed for the mission to the moon that were capable of photographing in the extreme low-light conditions of space, but 3 more of the same lens were sold to Stanley Kubrick for his candlelit film, Barry Lyndon. The owner of the lens company made one more for himself.
Me7da TIL that Twisty the Clown on "American Horror Story" was so scary that actors had to leave the set after takes and regularly complained of nightmares
0dd9L TIL of the high % of NASA astronauts that were Boy Scouts. Of the 312 selected as astronauts, at least 207 have been active in scouting. Of the 24 to travel to the moon, 20 were scouts, including 11 of the 12 moonwalkers, and all three members of the crew of Apollo 13.