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TIL In Raiders’ iconic truck chase, Spielberg filmed Harrison Ford for only a few seconds (closeups). 2nd unit director, Michael D Moore, filmed most of the scene with stunt doubles, including Terry Leonard who performed Indy dragged underneath the truck and cameoed as the first Nazi truck driver

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wEmM TIL on the night Ted Bundy was executed, an estimated 2,000 celebrants sang, danced, and set off fireworks in a pasture across the street from the prison, then cheered loudly as the white hearse carrying his body left the facility.
jNenE TIL that back in the day they would stack cars vertically when transporting them by train.
4k8Ow TIL that prior to reunification, there were two regions in East Germany that were out of range of West German TV broadcasts and were sarcastically nicknamed the "Valley of the Clueless" (Tal der Ahnungslosen)
PYnpG TIL to reconstruct the Great Pyramid of Giza today, it would require about $5 billion, 5 years, 1,500 to 2,000 workers, and 2.3 million stones weighing 3 tons each, according to Jean-Pierre Houdin, a French architect who has helped create a virtual model of the ancient construction system.
k8g4 TIL that the Japanese translate “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” as “Monty Python and the Holy Sake Cup” and that the Knights Who Say Ni in the Japanese version wanted a bonsai tree instead of a shrubbery.