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TIL Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953 was filmed in 3D.

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pwMN TIL BMW used to offer Flame Throwers on their cars to stop car jacking in South Africa
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XEMZQ TIL in Outback Australia in areas where nobody used to worry about drink driving, distances were often measured in beers. The distance to a nearby town could be ‘only a sixpack’ but a longer trip to the nearest city could be as far as 'a carton’
78mGx TIL that in 1989 Val Kilmer punched and threw actress Caitlin O’Heaney to the floor during an audition for the lead female role of The Doors. There was not any punching in the scene Oliver Stone laughed about it and the company wrote her a check for $24,500 to not discuss the allegations publicly.
16rGP TIL that the Guinness World Records no longer recognize the fattest animal as a record in order to prevent compulsive overeating.