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TIL during the filming of A Clockwork Orange Malcolm McDowell suffered cracked ribs when an actor kicked him in the chest; almost drowned when his head was held underwater; and got a scratch in the cornea of his eye. Kubrick said.“Let’s carry on, I’ll favor your other eye”

b989j TIL it's possible to watch the entire Star Wars movie in Window's command prompt, using just few lines of code.
M7Jla TIL of wind catchers, an architectural technology dating back to 500BC Iran to passively cool buildings. Air is drawn in and out of these tall spire like structures through large slotted openings at the top. A stream of water underneath provides evaporatively cooled air which rises through the space
4MO5 TIL - Europeans didn’t know Marco Polo’s “Cathay” was really China or that the city “Cambulac” was really Beijing, until 1598 when Jesuit priests in Beijing talked to Arab merchants there, who still called it Cambulac. Maps until the 17th century showed China and Cathay as 2 different empires.
Y7RKW TIL that Liechtenstein sued Czechia for their stolen lands and castles they had owned for almost 700 years before their real estates were confiscated in Czechoslovakia after World War II under the so-called “Beneš decrees”. Czechia declined their claim, because of ethnic reasons.
raQw TIL that British researchers developed a pheromone-derived odorant that men perceive as ‘threatening’. Collection agencies purchased it at £3000/g after realizing that spraying it on bills increased payment rates by 17%