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TIL Barbara Bach who was Russian agent XXX the main Bond girl in The Spy Who Loved Me, auditioned for Charlie's Angels prompting them to ask her manager if she could play an American. Bach was born in Queens, New York

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X0mGP TIL about the Brennan Monorail, a single rail train built in the early 1900's using gyroscopic action to balance itself. Winston Churchill was one the first passengers at its public debut.
WPld TIL in WW2 Japan unwittingly created one of the best fighter aircraft of the war. When the inline engines intended for the Ki-61 were destroyed in a bombing raid, engineers shoehorned in a radial engine instead. The resulting amalgamation was the venerable Ki-100.
J86l TIL diamond engagement rings only became popular in the 1940’s as a guarantee of compensation in case the suitor cancelled the engagement. This became necessary after states began banning the breach of promise lawsuits that previously accomplished this.
oaAo TIL the movie “The Taming of the Shrew” had a tagline that read “"A motion picture for every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved… and for every woman who deserved it.”
6EZDY TIL that in 1985, 45 legendary musicians dropped what they were doing, flew to Los Angeles, and pulled an all-nighter to record: “We Are The World”. The song was only written the day before it was recorded, but it sold 20 million copies and won three Grammys.