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TIL actor Steve McQueen was a highly trained martial arts expert, but refused to test for his belts in fear of being challenged publicly and sued if he opened a can of whoop ass on somebody

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7rnPX TIL that for the James Bond movies, Goldfinger and Thunderball, Aston Martin produced two Aston M DB5 prototypes. The one was auctioned for $4.6M in 2010. The other car, which appeared in the comedy "The Cannonball Run," was stolen from its Florida-based owner in 1997 and has never been recovered.
894G TIL artist Peter von Tiesenhausen made the top 6 inches of his 800 acre farm a copyrighted work of art to keep oil pipelines out. It costs oil companies $500/h to talk to him
6EX07 TIL that map makers created an imaginary town as a copyright trap but so many people went there it became a real town until the only store closed
YpZ6x TIL I learned that a handicapped woman invented an underwater wheelchair in 2012 as an art project and it works so well that able-bodied divers have trouble keeping up.
4XaxJ TIL there is a seemingly endless list of nicknames of poker hands. For example, a pair of nines is called a pair of Wayne Gretzkys.