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TIL that a typical F1’s steering wheel can have more than 35 buttons, switches, levers and lights

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JYv9V TIL While the film "Entebbe", which was about an airliner hijacking, was being filmed at Malta International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209, an actual hijacked flight, landed at the airport. Scenes from the hostages exiting the Afriqiyah plane were filmed, edited and inserted into the movie.
p8jNG TIL that from the Stalin-era to the early Brezhnev-era, the Soviet economy grew faster than the United States
groLX TIL that in 2013 the LAPD got called to the infinity ward offices and got in a stand off with a life size statue of ghost from modern warfare 2
Jdgv TIL A hacker group named UGNazi took down the Papa John’s website because the company “took 2 hours longer than expected to deliver my food.”
BraaW TIL that Ella Slack is the stand-in for Queen Elizabeth II and takes her place for rehearsals of ‘televised engagements’. However, she’s not allowed to sit on the throne and has to ‘hover’ if she’s required to help frame certain shots.