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TIL that Benedict Cumberbatch recorded his screen test for Star Trek Into Darkness at his best friend’s kitchen using an iPhone.

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YpPKW TIL: Virtually every country named syphilis after its enemies. The French called it the Neapolitan disease, the English and Italians called it the French disease, Russians called it the Polish disease, Tahitians called it the British disease, and the Japanese called it the Chinese pox.
vPYb8 TIL that 'Bend It Like Beckham' (2002) was the first ever Western-made film to air on television in North Korea
A8mo TIL While visiting Camp David in 1973, Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was given a Lincoln Continental by Richard Nixon. Brezhnev coaxed Nixon into the passenger seat and then drove off the property, leaving the President’s security detail behind as the two leaders sped down rural, narrow roads.
p8bnZ TIL the US Navy conducted mock air attacks by aircraft carrier on Pearl Harbor in 1932 and 1938. In both exercises the attacks were successful, demonstrating the importance of air power over battleships. Both exercises were ignored by the US Navy but were studied carefully by the IJN.
e0ZNL TIL of Sarah Ann Henley, who survived a 75-metre jump because her billowing skirt slowed her fall.