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TIL that this Honda commercial was produced without the use of any CGI. It took 605 takes, and consists of two continuous shots stitched together.

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MeL8V TIL- That there was a Pipe Smoker of the Year award. Winners included Stephen Fry, Tony Benn and Patrick Moore
dW9r TIL that most of the Middle East’s borders were drawn up by a pair of English and French aristocrats in 1916.
Rjga TIL that after WW2, cuttings from Washington DC’s cherry trees–originally a gift from Japan–were sent back to Japan to restore the Tokyo collection decimated by US bombing during the war
RbE9 TIL That the side-blotched lizard uses a ‘rock-paper-scissors’ mating mechanism, with Orange throated males beating blue, blue throated beating yellow throated, and yellow beating orange.
xVMpD TIL Charles Bello bought 240 acres of redwoods for $45,000 in 1968 to protect them from logging and continues to live there today in a parabolic cabin powered by solar power