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TIL in the 1970’s, General Motors designed the Chevy Vega specifically so it could be shipped pointed downwards. The fluid reservoirs were designed so fluid did not leak when the cars were tipped on end. This allowed them to ship 30 automobiles on a single rail car.

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LkmV0 TIL Dubbed as one of the worse sales promotions in history, Hoover nearly went bankrupt after promising UK customers a flight to the USA and back if they spent £100 or more on their products. Hoover cancelled the promotion before many customers received their tickets and some even took legal action.
GAXb4 TIL that an assassination attempt made on James Bond in Casino Royale (1953), was based on a real such failed bomb attack on Franz Von Papen the Vice Chancellor of Germany. Papen survived because the trees he was around, took the blast impact.
5YBAn TIL of isolated incidents of humans surviving abnormally high G-forces, most notably the Air Force officer John Stapp, who demonstrated a human can withstand 46.2 G’s. The experiment only went on a few seconds, but for an instant, his body had weighed over 7,700 pounds.
OGxRL TIL Disney's Animal Kingdom was the brainchild of Imagineer Joe Rohde, who had previously designed the Adventurers Club at Pleasure Island. When presenting the idea of the new animal-themed park, Rohde brought a 400-pound Bengal tiger into the meeting with Disney CEO Michael Eisner.
mrRv TIL after both had become massively famous, Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood got drunk and pissed on the grave of a studio exec who had fired them