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TIL Hollywood Agent Mike Ovitz turned his personal martial arts instructor, Steven Seagal, into a movie star. Seagal's first film "Above the Law" actually originated from a successful screen test financed by Ovitz and led to Seagal being offered a studio contract with Warner Bros.

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oBmO8 TIL the raised reflectors in between lanes on the highway also indicate direction. Normally they reflect white or yellow but if they appear red, it’s becasue you are going the wrong way.
VMw54 TIL Beetles are the most diverse order of life on our planet and have been around since the days of Pangaea.
eV6g TIL the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens to fool the NATO. Missiles would home in on any strong source of radio emission in the 400-10000 MHz range, exactly the range of household microwave ovens. In the next days, NATO pilots bombed microwave ovens placed in empty fields instead of Serbian tanks
vjvB TIL That Archimedes developed an anti-ship weapon called the Claw of Archimedes. It lifted a ship by the prow then dropped it, often causing the vessel to capsize or at least severely damaging it.
RE46 TIL there is an area that has 10 hour lightning storms up to 260 days per year. The storms are so bright sailors use them for navigation.