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TIL when the stunt team tried to flip James Bond’s Aston Martin DBS in ‘Casino Royale,’ they found the car too stable to be overturned by an 18” ramp. In their last attempt they fitted the DBS with a gas cannon and ended up rolling the car a total of 7 times, accidentally setting a new world record.

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NX4XE TIL in 2017 researchers recorded a praying mantis which regularly hunted one to two guppy fish every night on a roof garden in India. Previously, aquatic prey was believed anomalous for mantises, as they were thought to have difficulty seeing movement in dark waters.
0vL TIL Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen didn’t know how to play chess until they learned it to shoot X-Men.
x6LMg TIL two shows on FOX featured characters with similar names: That '70s Show had Eric Forman, while House had Eric Foreman. There was no crossover, and the episodes didn't air in the same season, but Kurtwood Smith was a supporting actor in the former (98-06) and a guest actor in the latter (2007)
vWZ7 TIL of the “Tinker” supreme court case. In 1965 as a Vietnam War protest 3 kids wore black armbands to school. The school banned the armbands. They wore them again and were suspended. The “Tinker test” is used to see if a school’s disciplinary actions violate students’ 1st Amendment rights
mxEkx TIL of Steve Flaig who was adopted as a child. At age 18 he decided to look for his birth mother. Four years later he succeeded and discovered that they were colleagues working in the same store