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TIL Gasoline Has a Surprisingly Short Shelf Life

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waro TIL That actor Ron Perlman smokes 4 cigars a day, mostly to calm himself. He says: “Some people meditate, I smoke cigars. It’s the best way for me to find myself. Smoking a cigar stops my hands from shaking. Smoking a cigar prevents me from punching people in the face when they get on my nerves.“
Mpnb TIL that the time traveling machine in Back to the Future was originally supposed to be a refrigerator, but director Robert Zemeckis feared that children would climb into their home fridges and suffocate themselves so they went with the DeLorean instead.
mXkx TIL there is no Nobel Prize for Economics. The Economics Prize is not awarded by the Nobel-Committee, but Sweden’s Central Bank against the wishes of the Nobel Family and has nothing to do with the original award
wopa7 TIL Jamie Lee Curtis was given $200 to create Laurie Strode's wardrobe for Halloween (1978). She got her entire outfit from JCPenney.
KY0rB TIL that Little Groot dancing in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was director James Gunn using motion capture