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TIL the opening shot in Bond films was actually filmed through the barrel of a gun

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nWEpr TIL, from March to July in 2018, an arctic fox was tracked walking 4,350 km across the sea ice from Norway to Greenway to Canada averaging 47 km per day, eventually settling on Ellesmere Island. It provided evidence on how arctic species remain connected even when scattered across islands.
wLd9W TIL a ruby is actually just a red sapphire
9W5r TIL Johnny Cash was the voice of the spirit guide coyote, in The Simpson’s episode where Homer eats hallucinogenic chilli.
xVM4D TIL The Twist was originally written and recorded by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters and went on to be a number one hit in 1960 but Dick Clark recommended to Cameo Records that a more wholesome Chubby Checker rerecord the song, which became a number one hit again in 1962.
XEOZ6 TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.