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TIL that James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear will script and shoot a car chase for the new Die Hard movie.

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9wNPM TIL that the discovery of viruses started from a mysterious disease that affected tobacco crops in the Netherlands at the end of 1800s. A Dutch microbiologist named Beijerinck proved that filtrated sap from plants was still infectious, and called it "contagious, living fluid".
PY9dw TIL There are two entirely unrelated comic strips titled "Dennis The Menace". They both started on March 12th 1951, and continue on to this very day.
DEaJ TIL $44 billion worth of gift cards have gone unredeemed since 2008
4kAjb TIL that this is one of the first crime scene photos ever taken, Featured is the corpse of Madame Debeinche, who was murdered in her Paris apartment on May 5, 1903 .
gMnZb TIL of Eva Saxl, a diabetic woman who synthesised her own insulin in a basement during WWII, saving not only her own life but the lives of over 200 people in the Shanghai Ghetto who would have died when legal insulin became unavailable