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TIL that AK-47 stands for Avtomat Kalashnikova, named after Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, who designed the accepted version of the weapon in 1947.

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EgYN7 TIL Bill Murray was bitten twice by the groundhog while filming Groundhogs day. The doc who treated him declined to give him a rabies shot because he didn’t know if groundhogs were carriers. When Murray asked, “what if i get rabies?” he responded, “then we’ll know [they’re carriers], won’t we.”
RXo7 TIL Dustin Hoffman didn’t shower, sleep or change clothes for 4 days, to get into character for “Marathon Man”. When co-star Sir. Laurence Olivier heard about it, he said “My dear boy, why don’t you try ACTING? It’s so much easier”
b9AGa TIL the first modern office chair failed commercially outside the US, because it was too comfortable. The Victorian morality of the time valued rigid, unsupportive seats that allowed sitters to demonstrate refinement, willpower and morality through an upright posture.
Lkgm0 TIL that in 2005, after Rob Schneider called movie critic Patrick Goldstein unqualified because he’d never won the Pulitzer Prize, famous film critic Roger Ebert told Schneider that, as a Pulitzer winner, HE was qualified to review the film, and that “Your movie sucks.”
P1WnL TIL actor Richard Harris was offered the role of English Bob in Unforgiven by a phone call from Clint Eastwood while watching Eastwood's western High Plains Drifter. Richard thought it was a prank at first.