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TIL that due to its shape and its windows, the skyscraper 20 Fenchurch Street behaved as a concave mirror for up to two hours each day, provoking local temperatures spots of up to 91 °C (196 °F) or 117 °C (243 °F)

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R7na TIL that in October of 1988 a group of fundamentalist christians armed with molotov cocktails staged an attack on a Parisian screening of the controversial film The Last Temptation of Christ, Injuring 13 moviegoers
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