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TIL that there is a monolith in Phobos

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QJ65X TIL that Christopher Nolan didn't know that Harry Styles was famous when he cast him in Dunkirk, and only selected him for the role because he liked his audition tape.
9bQm TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger was not excited about making The Terminator and told an interviewer that a pair of shoes he had for the movie was for “…some shit movie I’m doing, take a couple weeks”. He considered the movie was low profile enough that it wouldn’t risk his career if it bombed.
O16a TIL New Mercedes-Benz cars will play a short blast of white/pink noise just before an unavoidable crash, forcing the occupant’s ears to turn off for a moment, preventing the hearing loss normally caused by the crash itself or airbags.
xJlg TIL that a Super Pershing tank, one of only two ever built, met and destroyed a King Tiger (Tiger II) in WWII
kOe47 TIL that The Red Wedding in Game of Thrones is based on a real event called The Black Dinner in which the ten-year-old King James II of Scotland invited Earl William Douglas and his younger brother to a feast, during which he had them seized, taken from the hall and murdered.