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TIL that Steve McQueen staged a car crash and faked a whiplash injury so that he could film The Magnificent Seven while “recuperating”

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QNRAa TIL that the bus service from London, England to Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) was considered to be the longest bus route in the world. The bus service, which started in 1957, was routed to India via Belgium, Yugoslavia and North Western India.This route is also known as the Hippie Route.
yMv TIL That the chapter in which Barty Crouch, played by David Tennant, dies was titled “The Parting of Ways.” The first episode David Tennant played The Doctor in was also titled “The Parting of Ways.”
JYPok TIL Author Roald Dahl's last words would have been "You know, I'm not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much", but after a painful morphine injection while he was still conscious, his last words were "Ow, fuck."
ne457 TIL most people who have cars with built in GPS use their phones for directions.
4kaJa TIL that evolutionarily speaking, humans are not just related to monkeys, we are monkeys