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TIL that in 1973, film director Claude Lelouch tested his new gyro-stabilized camera by strapping it to the front of a super-charged Mercedes and then tearing through the streets of Paris, running red lights, dodging pedestrians, and reaching speeds up to 140 MPH [video in comments]

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