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TIL a couple got rick rolled when getting married

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M59m TIL Ian Fleming’s fictional car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was again built in 2002 at a cost of £750,000, making it the most expensive stage prop ever according to the Guinness World Records.
oRvGY TIL - in 1995, Renault installed their 800+HP, V-10 Formula 1 engine into their Espace minivan, sold in Europe. They had F1 champ Alain Prost test drive it around a race track.
69BwJ TIl that in Ancient Rome a newborn would be laid on the ground and checked for any defects. Then pater familias would decide whether the child would be raised or not. Unwanted children would be given away, left to die or outright killed (it was legal to kill children until the 4th century AD)
ANr1l TIL that, due to its short orbit around the sun (just 88 days), Mercury is, on average, the closest planet not only to Earth but to all the other planets in our Solar System as well.
QN7Rk TIL Queen Laodice IV of the Seleucid Empire married and had children with all three of her biological brothers. Her third husband/younger brother Antiochus IV Epiphanes co-ruled and later assassinated his nephew/adopted son from her second marriage