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Fridge doors seal with a flexible magnetic strip

A soft PVC gasket holds a magnet that grips the steel cabinet frame The gasket is a hollow rubbery extrusion with a magnetic strip running through it, so it pulls itself against the painted steel lip all the way round. The hollow section lets it squash over uneven spots and still touch. A worn or dirty gasket lets warm air in, which shows up as condensation and a compressor that runs too long. It sits in Mondo's everyday life collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: A soft PVC gasket holds a magnet that grips the steel cabinet frame. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a everyday life fact?: Yes. It sits on the Everyday Life shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.