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TIL A US Navy Ship Was Built In the USSR

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VWvQ TIL Lou Ferrigno still voices The Hulk in the two Avengers movies.
1amGP TIL that the bottom of a tectonic plate off Portugal’s coast is peeling off, causing the plates to start grinding beneath each other and creating a subduction zone.
gr8W TIL that one of Google’s data centers is completely cooled by sea water from the Gulf of Finland.
bKV7 TIL that a German landlord once evicted a tenant without notice for pouring surstromming in the stairwells of the the building. When sued over the eviction, he won the case by opening a can of surstromming in the court, convincing the court that the smell of the fish brine was too much to tolerate.
ANmZw TIL Anthony Bourdain called “Ratatouille” “simply the best food movie ever made.” This was due to details like the burns on cooks’ arms, accurate to working in restaurants. He said they got it “right” and understood movie making. He got a Thank You credit in the film for notes he provided early on.