› added 5 months ago

14

TIL about the Overcoat, an animated film that has been worked on since 1981. Director Yuri Norstein refuses any extra help, or a computer for his animation.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

M8dB TIL about a hacker who, while serving five years for hacking, signed up for a prison IT class, and successfully hacked into the prison’s mainframe
BOxW TIL of UCSC grad student Jim Kent who wrote a program to allow the Human Genome Project to assemble and publish the genome. The research was largely motivated by concerns that Celera Genomics, working on a parallel project, would patent the data. Kent’s results were released first by 3 days.
NENb TIL a man built a restaurant in Northern Iraq called MaDonal’s after McDonald’s turned denied his request. The restaurant serves items such as “Big Macks,” and serves free food to U.S. forces, and thus has been threatened by suicide bombers, turning the man into a local celebrity.
aA0y TIL hydrogen in Saturn gets so dense toward the core that it turns into a metal.
jNgVX TIL that in 1947, the "Doomsday Clock" was invented, it essentially says how long we have until it is doomsday (midnight). In 1991 it was 17 minutes to midnight, and this year it is 100 seconds to midnight.