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TIL Jet Li didn’t want to star in the Matrix with fear that he would lose ownership of his martial arts moves when digitalized

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WJ6B TIL in 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian state police the world’s fastest police car, a Gallardo LP560-4, which was equipped with a video surveillance camera, gun racks, GPS, organ transplant cooler (in the luggage compartment) and defibrillator. It was crashed the following year.
5Abp TIL Michele Ferrero, the owner of Ferrero Rocher is the richest man in Italy with with over $20B in net worth. He also owns Nutella and Tic Tac.
x68k7 TIL the plane which dropped the atomic bomb in WW2, the B-29 Superfortress, was more expensive to develop ($3 billion) than the Manhattan Project ($1.9 billion).
4RJw TIL In response to The Lorax, the forest products industry published Truax to teach kids the importance of logging.
79db TIL that a few thousand years before Plato described Atlantis there really was a big island which disappeared in the middle of the North Sea