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TIL That the most unlikely Celebs are geniuses (Dolph Lundgren!)

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YpXnx TIL Rudolph Diesel took his inspiration for inventing the Diesel engine from watching a lecture where there was a demonstration of a Malaysian fire starting technique called the 'fire piston' which creates flames through air compression.
GAMr7 TIL when Quentin Tarantino found out that Video Archives in Hermosa Beach, California (the video rental store he had worked at) was closing, he bought the entire "inventory and recreated the store in his basement", because for him, "that place [was] a lifesaver."
QNvVL TIL that why most shopping malls have this kind of air door that blast you with high velocity air flow when you enter. It is actually called an air door or air curtain that is used to prevent air, contaminants, flying insects from moving from one open space to another and keep the temp maintained.
rNrAd TIL about "Embassy", an Australian drama series set in the embassy of a fictional South-East Asian country which the Malaysian government considered to be so offensive that it was cited as one of the reasons for a temporary freezing of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
awpGJ TIL that actor Errol Flynn had such massive genital warts upon his death that Vancouver's chief pathologist removed them and soaked them in formaldehyde to allow medical students to research them. When the city's coroner heard this, he immediately scotch taped Flynn's warts back onto to his penis.