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TIL that to prepare for her role as Annie in Speed, Sandra Bullock actually learned how to drive a bus. She passed the test and got her license on her first try.

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e0Bg6 TIL about Julia Popova, who was stabbed by a mugger as she walked home from work one in 2010 - but she was so traumatised by the attack that she walked home without realising the knife was embedded in her, just a fraction of an inch from her spinal cord.
KYAK9 TIL in 1940s and 50s America coin-op machines called the “Voice-O-Graph” were commonly available to instantly record a single vinyl record from an attached microphone for a few quarters
Oow9X TIL that despite virtually eliminating Salmonella from their food supply, the rate of Campylobacter infections (primarily from infected poultry) in Denmark is nearly 5x higher than in the United States.
woKAY TIL that Jim and Pam’s proposal scene was the single most expensive shot on the entire series of The Office. It cost $250,000 to film because they had to build a replica of a rest stop and make it rain.
e0j4E TIL that the darkest black created, an acrylic paint called "Black 3.0", was created by artists in retaliation of artist Anish Kapoor who had secured the exclusive right to use the aerospace material "Vantablack" in art projects, refusing all other artists who wanted to use it as well.