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TIL A $250,000 diamond placed on the nose of an F1 car was lost in a crash in the 2004 Monaco GP. It's still missing today.

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9YQ07 TIL Anthony Hopkins is renowned for his preparation of roles, sometimes going over his lines 200 times. In Spielberg's Amistad, he memorised an entire 7 page courtroom speech and delivered it in one go. Because of this, Spielberg insisted on calling him Sir Anthony instead of Tony out of respect
X0MG8 TIL The chimp that went into space, Enos, was accidentally subjected to 76 electric shocks while in orbit due to a malfunctioning conditioning test device.
Ww9o TIL: A new paper published in nature show that when doing certain experiments in mice, the gender of the researcher can greatly vary the results of experiment observed in mice. Mice are scared ‘shitless’ when men are around.
5YLyD TIL that during the 30s there were massive rallies in NYC at Madison Square Garden attended by tens of thousands of Americans who allied with Germany
XN1P TIL of an Australian cardiologist that travels around Australia in a semi-trailer turned specialist medical clinic, delivering specialist services to the most out of reach rural citizens of the country who would otherwise be unable to receive such services, all without any government funding.