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TIL It’s impossible to burp in space.

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yKvp TIL that the compellingly challenging difficulty curve of Space Invaders (many slow enemies which become faster the fewer are left) wasn’t a design choice, but a hardware limitation. Furthermore, some historians attribute the runaway success of the game entirely to this single error.
8eLpV TIL that when filming The Dark Knight on LaSalle St in Chicago, they actually flipped an entire semi-truck using TNT
Br4mD TIL the movie "Deep Throat" was made for $47,500, but made at least $30 million, and according to some estimates, it might have brought in as much as $600 million of earnings.
91BM TIL the Troll A Platform, a natural gas platform in the middle of the Troll Gas Field off the coast of Norway, is the tallest and heaviest structure ever moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth, and is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history.
NXyke TIL slavery was not abolished in Ethiopia until 1942