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TIL the reason Mickey Mouse wears gloves is so that his hands can be seen when they’re in front of his body

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VMZ7B TIL about the Gray Goo Scenario, a hypothetical apocalypse scenario in which all life on earth is consumed into a gray biomass created by self replicating nanomachines
6ErZY TIL boom mic operator on the original Star Wars, Ken Nightingall, AKA the 'Pink Shorts Boom Guy', was uncredited for his work on Star Wars and, despite it winning both a BAFTA and an Academy Award for best sound, wasn't included on the award citation either.
EgGNx TIL no one has seen a newborn great white shark pup or birth in the wild.
D1edv TIL: In 1883, a volcano on Krakatoa erupted so violently, the eardrums of sailors ruptured over 40 miles away; island of Rodrigues 3000 miles away heard noises; and was heard by over 50 geographical locations covering a thirteeth of the globe.
nYWP TIL a man’s AI watched and recreated blade runner. The recreation was taken down. Essentially: Warner DMCA’d an artificial reconstruction of a film about artificial intelligence being indistinguishable from humans, because it couldn’t distinguish between the simulation and the real thing.