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TIL The Sultan of Brunei owns over 7000 cars and his official car is gold plated Rolls Royce.

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VMQJQ TIL Clara Peller, a retired manicurist, was hired at age 80 as a temp on a commercial set. Her voice and manner brought an acting contract, and she became rich and famous from Wendy's "Where's the beef" campaign and later roles during the last 5 years of her life.
neveY TIL the Hitchcock film North By Northwest (1959) is regarded by some to be "the first James Bond film", due to its similarities with splashily colorful settings, secret agents, a femme fatale, and an elegant, wisecracking leading man opposite a sinister yet strangely charming villain
M7Nm0 TIL Plants aren't silent. They make clicking sounds like popcorn inaudible to humans that change under stress
xVgg1 TIL NYC Transit sunk 2,500 retired subway cars along the eastern seaboard to create artificial reef habitats for marine life
Bg6or TIL the earliest recorded known use of the arrow symbol (“→”) was in 1737