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TIL that Ian Flemming not only wrote the James Bond novels, he also wrote Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.

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1yNr TIL that Tarantino has never fully watched “Natural Born Killers”, despite receiving story credit for the film. He walked out before it ended, commenting: “I just hated that whole Rodney Dangerfield sequence so much. It was so unfunny, so disgusting.”
6oll TIL “the world has more than 50,000 edible plants, yet just three commodity crops—rice, maize, and wheat—provide 60 percent of the plant-derived calories we eat”
d8G7B TIL of the Sony rootkit scandal: In 2005, Sony shipped 22,000,000 CDs which, when inserted into a Windows computer, installed unn-removable and highly invasive malware. The software hid from the user, prevented all CDs from being copied, and sent listening history to Sony.
Kkjw TIL the hamlet of Shitterton in Dorset England had it’s town sign stolen so often, the inhabitants banded together to purchase a 1.5-ton block of stone to place at the entrance to Shitterton, carved with the hamlet’s name.
OyA7 TIL: Alcohol is actually banned in professional shooting competition as it is actually considered a performance enhancing drug.