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MeBva TIL Paris's first Tex-Mex restaurant opened in 1983. Business was slow, but the 1986 film Betty Blue, had characters drinking tequila shots and eating chili con carne, made the food popular. Benayoun said, "after the movie came out, everybody in Paris wanted a shot of tequila and a bowl of chili."
jlxv TIL that there is a runway in Somaliland, a country that is not even recognised internationally, which is so long NASA rented it for 40 million dollars a year just in case the space shuttle could not make it back to America.
yXYw TIL That Marvel has banned comicbook writers from creating new X-Men or Fantastic Four characters, stopped X-Men and FF merchandising, and cancelled the Fantastic Four comic all in order to spite Fox, who owns the movie rights
QNorp TIL Ian Fleming, author of the original 007 novels, was against the casting of Sean Connery as James Bond, calling him an “overgrown stuntman”, and criticizing his appearance. However, he ended up liking Connery’s performance so much that he characterized Bond based on him in future novels.
woPK6 TIL that one of the most infamous Goya's Black Paintings titled "The Dog" is theorized to actually depicts a dog drowning. Apparently it was done when Goya was in his 70's when he was in mental and physical distress. It is thought that this painting portrays the idea of inevitability of death.