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TIL The Sound of Music's story was based on a real family of singers and now the real Von Trapp house is a hotel.

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D19WD TIL The James Bond film Goldeneye has a tank chase scene filmed in St.Petersburg, Russia. Using the utmost care, the crew staged stunts and explosions in the historic heart of the city. Crew members spent a week emptying around 90,000 cans of Perrier for the stunt sequence
rnxy TIL If you put superglue on cotton it will catch fire
ePDJ TIL in 2005, a student in England made a 1 million pixel webpage and put up the space for sale at $1 per pixel. He did this in order to pay for college and he was successful, selling out in less than 6 months.
Bre5b TIL that the title of Paul Simon's 1972 single 'Mother and Child Reunion' was inspired by a chicken-and-egg dish on a Chinese restaurant menu, and the lyrics by the loss of a pet dog which was run over and killed.
lR7B TIL Confederate cavalry general Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He quit the group less than two years later. In 1875 he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation and equality. (Speech in Comments)