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TIL the reason Roy Scheider ad-libbed the line “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” in Jaws was because it had become a catchphrase on set for anytime anything went wrong. It was directed at two "stingy producers" because the support boat that steadied the barge with the filming equipment was too tiny.

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wERM TIL Aircraft black boxes are designed to be able to withstand the pressure of being a mile underwater for up to 30 days. In the case of the Airbus box on Air France 447 it spent over 2 ½ years at over 3 miles deep and was still able to determine the cause of the accident.
QN8Wd TIL Champagne can only be called "Champagne" if made in the Champagne region of France, but due to a loophole in the Treaty of Versailles and the US not signing it, some California winemakers still use the term on their labels.
yQvxp TIL At 83 years old, Michael Caine changed his legal name because "An airport security guard would say, ‘Hi, Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d give him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name."
VMlam TIL at the 2:58 mark in Hey Jude, you can hear Paul McCartney say "fucking hell" after making a mistake on the piano. The band decided to keep it in because they thought it was funny.
1aWoV TIL newborns are "obligate nose breathers" meaning that they can only breathe through their nose for the first few months of their life.