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TIL the last shot of Terminator where Sarah drives her jeep into a storm was done without a filming permit. James Cameron (who was 29 at the time) told a cop who spotted him that he was a UCLA student.

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d6mj TIL that if you clap your hands in front of Chichen Itza’s El Castillo pyramid, the echo will sound like a chirping bird
RYyj TIL 43% of British pilots admitted to falling asleep during flights, 33% of them reported waking up to find that their co-pilots had fallen asleep as well, according to a survey carried between 2010 & 2012 [PDF]
grZRD TIL that the largest hotel chain in the U.S. by number of locations is Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, with 6,083 locations across the country.
KO9GB TIL that in 2017, Frankfurt police found a car belonging to a 76 year old man who had forgotten where he had parked it 20 years earlier.
D1evD TIL to combat the spread of smallpox during the Civil War, soldiers would find someone with cowpox, cut open their pustules, and infect themselves with it. The less harmful cowpox made them immune to smallpox, but they sometimes confused cowpox with syphilis and gave themselves an STD instead.