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TIL The difference between special effects (SFX) and visual effects (VFX) is that special effects are realized on set whereas visual effects are added afterward.

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RP6Q TIL that the gene that was bred into tomatoes by commercial farmers to give them a uniform color had the unintended result of preventing internal sugar reactions that give tomatoes flavor. This mutation (and lack of flavor) has been bred into almost all commercial American tomatoes.
W7GDA TIL about the Thanksgiving Day Disaster, leading to the deaths of 23 people watching college football in San Francisco in 1900.
N6kP TIL Frank Gusenberg, who was shot fourteen times during the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, when asked by the police who shot him replied “Nobody shot me.”
wLLZ6 TIL that "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer's block" is the shortest academic article ever: it has no words
4k005 TIL that Canadian wheat flour from Manitoba is prized in Italy, and is preferred for Neapolitan Pizza.