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TIL In 2003 New Zealand engineer Bruce Simpson designed an $5,000 cruise missile using off the shelf parts sourced from the Internet. Despite being entirely legal, his project was shut down by the government.

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pYBwN TIL Pixar renders its animated movies with one of the top 25 supercomputers in the world; with all that power, it still took 2 years of processing to render every frame of Monsters University.
0d1nM TIL Box turtles evolved from water to land, then back to the water, then back to the land again
d8nVZ TIL the part of Central Park where Yoko Ono scattered John Lennon's ashes is now named Strawberry Fields.
5YZmk TIL that donkeys are extremely territorial and have a deep rooted hatred towards canines, there also more than capable of killing foxes, dogs and other perceived threats towards there herd.
GAJn7 TIL Virtually all dialogue in the movie This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is improvised. Actors were given outlines indicating where scenes would begin and end, but everything else came from the actors. As often as possible, the first take was used in the film, to capture natural reactions.