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TIL The actor who played the high school student Pedro Sanchez in Napoleon Dynamite (Efren Ramirez) was almost 30 years old at the time

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mxGbE TIL In 1831, a train suffered a boiler explosion when a fireman grew tired of listening to it whistle, and tried to stop the noise by placing a piece of lumber on the safety valve and sitting on it. The blocked valve caused the pressure within the boiler to exceed its capacity, and it exploded.
0DrA TIL a popular dish in Scotland is a frozen pizza folded in half, dipped in batter and deep fried. It is usually served with salt and vinegar.
PZ8L TIL that those two tiny holes drilled in every BIC pen is to ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen- this helps the ink flow to the tip.
yP8v TIL of the Brabham formula 1 fan car. Fans were used to suck air out from under the car. Air-tight ‘hover-car like’ skirts allowed the fans to develop negative pressure beneath the chassis. This effectively allowed the car to 'stick to the road’. It won its only race before being banned.
X5JD TIL in 2006 Honda become the sole supplier of engines in the IndyCar series, It was for the first time in Indianapolis 500 history, the race was run without a single engine problem.