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TIL "The Blues Brothers" (1980) held the world record for the most cars destroyed in one film, 104 cars.

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xQDb TIL in 1958, the US Air Force made plans to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon and wanted it to visible by the naked eye on earth. They hoped it would boost American morale to counter the USSR’s advances in the space race. Project_A119
yQ4Zv TIL that when Samuel Fuller left Hollywood to fight in WW2, he refused offers for desk jobs and instead enlisted as an infantryman, saw heavy fighting, and even liberated a concentration camp. Returning home with a Silver Star, he became one of the most influential filmmakers of all time.
B8AK TIL: Ross Perot hired a former US Special Forces Colonel to bust two of his employees out of Iranian jail shortly before the 1979 Iranian Revolution
jPav TIL the voice of Lilo in Lilo & Stitch is also the girl from the video tape in The Ring.
bGgQ TIL Russian criminal and prisoners would get large chest and back tattoos of Stalin and Lenin, not out of respect, but to avoid having internal organs damaged during beatings by guards who would not denigrate the images.