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TIL Casino Royale scoops a Guinness World Record for the most cannon rolls in a car. ... Stunt double Adam Kirley plays Bond in the scene in which a nitrogen cannon blows the car through the air.

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a817L TIL that instant coffee was invented by a New Zealander named David Strang in 1889 — decades before it was "discovered" elsewhere. Strang, from Invercargill, patented a method for producing soluble coffee powder using a dry hot-air process.
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QYXa TIL that weathermen in the US were forbidden to forecast tornadoes, because it was believed that the panic caused by tornadoes was more dangerous than the tornadoes themselves.
yQ9JJ TIL when Volkswagen entered the US market in 1949, they only managed to sell two cars in their first year.