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TIL that de Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City was actually inspired from a scene from James Bond's 'Spectre' movie in 2015

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5VBwk TIL the Zerão stadium in Macapá, Brazil is named after the common belief that the midfield line lies exactly on the equator, causing each team to defend one hemisphere
5VKr TIL that Neptune was predicted to exist by mathematical calculations well before it was physically observed by telescopes
GYjp7 TIL: Ian Fleming based James Bond on at least 17 different people, but apparently not a real spy named James Bond.
vMDD TIL the pilot episode of LOST was so expensive (~$14 million) that the network president was fired for green-lighting it
BLbD TIL Four Presidents of the U.S. were members of the ‘Whig Party’ (1833-60). The Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Presidency. The party was ultimately destroyed by the question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery to the territories.