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TIL Iranians still use the ancient form of air conditioning called the badgir. It is a tower with vents on top and allows cool air to accelerate down into a building. Zion National Park in Utah has a modern example of this, where temps reach over 100 F, the visitors center stays at cool 73 F.

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JYla1 TIL about the Carthusian Martyrs. These men refused to accept Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church in England and were brutally killed because of it. The English authorities under Thomas Cromwell killed and harrassed the Carthusians until they were finally able to loot their monastery.
Z8Y9G TIL during the 1992 L.A. riots, police officers asked the accompanying U.S. Marines to cover them while searching a house for a suspect that held his wife and children hostage. Mistaking the statement "cover them" for suppressive fire, the Marines promptly fired 200 rounds into the house.
rY5w TIL that in Switzerland, “Needle Park”, they opened up a park where it was legal to sell drugs to get it out of the neighborhoods and streets. It eventually turned into a place where junkies did their heroin.
xVEnb TIL Jonah Hill was hospitalised with bronchitis after shooting for "The Wolf of Wall Street". He had been snorting Vitamin D for close to seven months since the movie involved several scenes of coke snorting.
78L6Z TIL that the world's oldest company was a Japanese construction firm called Kongō Gumi, which operated continuously from 578 AD until 2006—over 1,400 years.