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TIL Jim Henson was an early pioneer in digital sets and computer-created puppets.

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MeY6b TIL there's a city in Texas called Cut and Shoot, supposedly named after a boy shouted "I'm going to cut around the corner and shoot through the bushes in a minute!" during an altercation.
DQJKJ TIL that Dr. Sigmund Rascher, who conducted inhuman experiments on concentration camp inmates, was executed at the end of World War II...not for his war crimes, but on the direct orders of Heinrich Himmler, for "financial irregularities" and other actions which embarrassed Himmler.
PYvWE TIL of Canicross, a sport where a person runs a race with a dog to help pull them forward, allowing the runner to maintain faster speeds than what would be possible otherwise.
PYDxe TIL that you have about a 1/2000 chance of contracting fatal cancer from any one CT scan.
69be8 TIL Many brands of nacho cheese owe their perpetual meltiness to something called sodium citrate. When you add sodium citrate to cheese, it melts more easily and stays melted without getting oily or clumpy. The chemical formula for sodium citrate is actually Na₃C₆H₅O₇)