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TIL 75% of the cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road.

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Wge8 TIL that Michael Keaton was so against Batman Forever, that even $15 M couldn’t sway him to reprise his role.
epyWJ TIL that Sesame Street was fiercely rejected by the BBC in 1971 because it had “authoritarian aims”. Monica Sims, the network head of childrens programming at the time stated “This sounds like indoctrination, and a dangerous extension of the use of television.”
E1Dp0 TIL Alvin Straight, a 73 year old, almost blind, man drove his John Deere lawn mower 240 miles to his brothers house after being denied his drivers license due to his eyesight.
JYxW4 TIL Stieg Larsson, author of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' part of the Millennium trilogy, died in 2004 due to a heart attack. The Milennium trilogy was published posthumously & has sold over 80 million copies today.
l78MV TIL of Mario Salcedo who, with a few exceptions, has been living permanently on Royal Carribbean cruise ships for over 20 years