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todayilearned + Join reddit Posted by EagleOfMay. TIL: James Carter received a $20,000 royalty check for a song in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" that he had sung 40 years earlier but didn't remember. 23K upvotes Comment View 252 comments

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todayilearned + Join reddit Posted by MyosinV. TIL that after studios refused, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was instead financed by the rock stars Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, Jethro Tull and Elton John who all saw it as simply 'a good tax write-off". 101K upvotes Comment View 1394 comments
REI tilthat TIL that because of a mistranslation Jimmy Carter told the Polish people in 1977 that he desired them carnally and that he had left the United States to never return. via reddit.com postmarxed Imagine being a Polish citizen and you hear the American president say he's here to f k and he's not leaving Source: tilthat 12,610 notes
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