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TIL Jackie Chan's 'Rumble in the Bronx' is glaringly and hilariously not shot anywhere near NYC. In fact Chan stopped trying to disguise the Vancouver location altogether about half way thru the film saying people really only wanted to watch action and didn't care if there were mountains in NYC

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Br8Jb TIL that the owner of a brand name can lost their legal protection for it if people started using it as the common or generic name for a type of product or service. This is what happened to Cellophane, Escalator, Flip Phone, Frisbee, Hovercraft, Kerosene, Sellotape, Trampoline, and Videotape.
5YO1k TIL that during an experiment, chemist Karen Wetterhahn accidentally spilled two drops of organic mercury on her hand. That small amount of mercury would kill her in less than a year, despite her wearing gloves at the time and taking appropriate measures to clean herself up.
7d8P TIL During the filming of ‘Snow Buddies’ Disney imported 20 under-aged golden retriever puppies. Because they weren’t vaccinated most of the dogs contracted parvo. Five puppies died during the making of the film.
4JBo TIL that as far back as the 1930’s pilots were setting endurance records keeping planes aloft for weeks at a time using primitive mid-air refueling techniques.
WkNN4 TIL in 1908, a meteor exploded over Siberia and flattened over 770 sq miles (2000 km) of forests. Though it disintegrated ~3 miles above Earth, it created an airburst with 1000x more energy than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Incredibly, only 3 people were killed.