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TIL Treadmills were invented to punish English criminals!

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kJWD7 TIL that Ian Fleming, the author who created the character of James Bond named the first ever Bond girl, Vesper Lynd of Casino Royale, after a cocktail. The drink was a mix of frozen rum, fruit and herbs that Ian had stumbled across in Jamaica.
QJK6k TIL: Larry McMurtry wrote the novels for the movies "Hud", "The Last Picture Show", "Terms of Endearment", "Brokeback Mountain", and is still living in the town he was born in, in Texas.
jNaX TIL the groove on your upper lip just below your nose is called a philtrum. It is common among many mammals and has no known function.
6VXl TIL that not until after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that it was a Federal Crime to murder the President of the United States
eQrn TIL During filming of Ant-Man Paul Rudd attempted to reinact the famous leg crossing scene from Basic Instinct to Michael Douglas. It didn’t go as planned and Michael said to Paul, “What are you a fucking pervert?”