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TIL About Leonardo Da Vinci's bridge : Designed in 15th century, It's a self-supporting bridge design that does not require any nails or fasteners to hold its structure . The bridge is made of a series of beams that crisscross each other like scissors, using the pressure to hold each other stable.

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gKvy TIL the film trucks used on the film “The Warriors” were “protected” by a real gang called The Mongrels for $500 a day. A member of the gang approached the film crew and said “we’d love to protect them for you.” A gang mediator from the police department told the crew to pay them.
KOjmG TIL that there's a family of British military intelligence satellites called Skynet, the first of which was launched in 1969
7rxjx TIL the Marx Brothers were the first actors in Hollywood to get a percentage of the gross receipts from one of their films
j6pDR TIL that in Cowboy Bebop the voice actors for Spike Spiegel (Steve Blum) and Julia (Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) are married in real life.
e5ob TIL André the Giant was once in a Montreal bar when four drunken men started to taunt him. André finally got fed up and chased the four men out into the parking lot. When the four men got into their car, André simply grabbed the car, turned it over onto its roof with the four men inside, and left.