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TIL that why most shopping malls have this kind of air door that blast you with high velocity air flow when you enter. It is actually called an air door or air curtain that is used to prevent air, contaminants, flying insects from moving from one open space to another and keep the temp maintained.

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0y5M TIL Mila Kunis was 14 years old when she auditioned for “That 70’s Show”. She said she’d be 18 on her birthday, but never said which birthday
yV7ov TIL 37 is the most common number people choose when asked to think of a random number between 1 and 100 (according to the Stanford / MIT Jargon file)
l70aB TIL of Umarell, an Italian subculture of older men who spend their time watching roadworks and construction sites.
DWPe TIL that there is a fictional island in the South Atlantic, off the west coast of Africa, at lat/long 0,0, called ‘Null Island’. Although it doesn’t exist in reality, it serves as an error trap for map systems. Map enthusiasts have given the island its own history, geography and even flag.
QJWo9 TIL of the art movement called Accidentalism, in which a portrait is painted first, and only after the work is done a person is looked for that looks like the one in the painting. There are still portraits that have not found a subject yet.