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TIL That this is Steve Kerr's Father, Malcom Kerr who was assassinated in Beirut in 1984 where he was the President of the American University in Beirut.

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VMWmQ TIL: The Soviet K-429 nuclear submarine sunk twice and than became a training sub
9w0y6 TIL: Mick Jackson, director of kooky ‘90s Steve Martin romcom, ‘LA Story’, is the same guy who directed the notoriously trauma-inducing British TV movie about nuclear apocalypse, ‘Threads’. These two films could not be more different if they tried.
vJ47 TIL that diabetics can donate their urine to be turned into whiskey suitable for export
4kd1R TIL They actually just film real dancers in make-up and costume for "Just Dance" instead of dancers in mocap suits.
0wGw5 TIL to deflect flight noises from the Amsterdam Airport, an 80-acre park in the shape of perfectly aligned furrows with high ridges in between (inspired by old farming techniques and Chladni patterns), was built. Finished in October 2013, the park cut the noise level in half almost immediately.