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TiL all Jeeps come with an easter egg on them.

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OGZyX TIL Neil Armstrong was filmed as he stepped on the moon with a $2.3 million upside-down camera. Westinghouse built for Apollo 11 a special model that the astronaut deployed by pulling a handle near the ladder he climbed down onto the lunar surface. NASA inverted the image for the TV audience.
mx8yo TIL that Pope Francis is an honorary member of the Harlem Globetrotters!
NPyb TIL that Robert Catesby was the leader of the Gunpowder Plot, even though the day is named after Guy Fawkes
j6ZEE TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis.
5R9k TIL that Kevin Smith’s Clerks (1994) was filmed in black and white because of budgetary limitations, and not for any artistic purposes or expression.