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TIL Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy directed and produced the 80′s classic movie Three Men and a Baby. Highly illogical.

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gxjy TIL British gunboats were having problems being lit on fire during World War II, so they designed a special diesel engine with the cylinders in a DELTA configuration. The engine worked so well, it is still in service 70 years later, and is half the size of its competitors. But just a 5th the weight.
66EJ TIL of a parachute system for small planes that has thus far saved 90 lives
ZLEY TIL of Kleindeutschland - literally a German town in the middle of New York City. It had the third largest German speaking population in the world until 1000 women and children were killed in a tragic fire. The population never recovered.
a8AeJ TIL when The Stooges broke up in the mid 1970s, David Bowie stepped in and produced both of Iggy Pop's acclaimed 1977 solo albums. Iggy would later say that Bowie saved him from professional, and maybe personal, annihilation.
grA7A TIL that Henri, Count of Chambord, was offered the French throne in 1870. He refused it when the French National Assembly would not meet his demand that they change the flag, leading Pope Pius IX to remark, "All that for a napkin!"