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TIL that according to Elon Musk, Top Gear completely faked their segment on Tesla and had in fact scripted the “breakdown” after which they pretended the car had to be pushed back to the garage before even receiving the car

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D9mj TIL of Kevin Mitnick, a hacker believed to be so dangerous that he was placed in solitary confinement for fear of being able to “start a thermonuclear war by whistling into a payphone.”
YpnGA TIL that in the '70s, North Korea ordered 1,000 Volvos from Sweden. To this day, the cars have not been paid for. Sweden still sends an invoice to Pyongyang, but North Korea has never upheld its end of the agreement.
nBxW TIL in the add-on ‘Lonesome Road’ for the game 'Fallout: New Vegas’ there’s a fossilized dog statue that you can pick up named “Seymour”. It’s an Easter Egg to Fry’s dog of the episode 'Jurassic Bark’ in Futurama.
R7l78 TIL Brandon Lee's stunt double in "The Crow" was later used as a stand-in for Lee after his death and CGI was used to digitally superimpose Lee's face onto the head of the double. The stunt double was Chad Stahelski who later directed "John Wick" and "John Wick: Chapter 2".
yVM4V TIL that the clock of French queen Marie Antoinette is displayed in the La Salle des Espèces Menacées et des Espèces Disparues (Room of Endangered and Extinct Species) at the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution in Paris. The wing has 257 specimens, including a quagga gifted to the French royals in 1784.