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TIL that Vin Diesel started his career as not just an actor, but a writer, producer, and director as well. In 1994 he made a short film that screened at Cannes, and in 1997 he made a feature that played at Sundance.

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GAQJN TIL Randy Rhoads died in a plane piloted by their tour bus driver that he took without permission after stopping to have their bus serviced near an airstrip. He made one trip transporting people but kept "buzzing" (flying right above) the bus to scare passengers until he flew too low and clipped it.
VklZ TIL that in 1896 Auburn ROTC cadets greased the skids of a railway track before a football game. The train with the incoming team couldn’t stop and slid halfway to the next town, forcing them to walk 5 miles to the game possibly contributing to their 45-0 loss.
4PwX TIL The nanoscale transistors found on modern microchips can be turned on and off at an unthinkable rate of over 100 billion times a second.
mxP5E TIL Rory Kinnear's father Roy was also an actor and played Mr. Salt in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
jNr8n TIL: Claude Monet frequently became upset with perceived faults in his paintings and would destroy them on the spot. Once, he made the news by destroying 15 paintings he'd created for an exhibition.