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TIL, a Bugatti Veyron has 16 oil plugs and changing the oil takes 27 hours, costing $21,000.

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m1PbO TIL BBC executives had decided not to air the pilot of the sitcom Are You Being Served but needed filler material to broadcast when the 1972 Summer Olympics were interrupted by the Munich Massacre. The show went on to run for 10 seasons and spawned a movie and a 2 season spinoff series
wLo97 TIL that in many American movies, the directors often edit out many of the hits, if not all during fight scenes, and that in Hong Kong cinema, especially Jackie Chan movies, they show the hit twice.
9YvOX TIL Wolfgang Doeblin, a Jewish-German mathematician fighting for the French during WWII. He committed suicide at 25 after his company was surrounded. A sealed letter he sent to the French Academy of Sciences was opened in 2000, revealing he had already proven a famous result in stochastic calculus.
YpxoZ TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve- much like the US has a strategic reserve of gasoline
78lrL TIL as of 2014, Peru was, with around 2349 people, the country with the most citizens named Hitler