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TIL refrigerators deliberately heat parts of themselves to avoid condensation.

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aw1NM TIL rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's verse on the hit song "Ghetto Supastar" was the result of him showing up at the wrong studio, loving the song, and asking to be part of it.
PYXJE TIL "The Hampster Dance" song (1998) is just a sped up version of the song "Whistle Stop" from the animated Disney movie Robin Hood (1973).
PYNde TIL Quentin Tarantino said in 2010 that had never met his father, Tony Tarantino, who had wanted to be an actor and claims he was blacklisted in the 1960s. Said Quentin: "He wanted to be an actor [...] Now he's an actor only because he has my last name"
6dx8 TIL that an orangutan named Fu Manchu repeatedly escaped from his cage at the zoo using a key he had fashioned from a piece of wire. Every time his zookeepers inspected him, he hid the key in his mouth.
p84XO Today I learned that, in the 1920's, a new "fixed length" calendar with 13 months of 28 days each, was voted in by a League of Nations special committee. Although this calendar never gained widespread adoption, it remained the official calendar of the Kodak company until 1989.