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TIL alpacas go to the toilet together

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0wQMy TIL Jerry Zucker, the director of Airplane! and Top Secret as well as a writer for Naked Gun, was the director for Ghost (1990) with Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, and Whoopi Goldberg
9YKop TIL Folding@Home is a distributed computing project for biomedical research of protein folding. Started in 2000, it now has over 100,000 users and is the fastest supercomputer in the world with over 470 petaFLOPS of computational power. The research has produced over 223 peer reviewed articles.
kMjB TIL Philippe Petit, then a 24 year old French high-wire artist, illegally high-wire walked between the Twin Towers 8 times over 45 minutes in 1974. Charges were dropped after he performed for kids in Central Park.
p8DNG TIL There were only two groups in Sparta that could have their names inscribed in their tombstones: mothers who died giving life and soldiers who fell in battle.
QNQgE TIL that HIGH-FIVES are a relatively recent gesture. Their documented origin begins in MLB with the 1977 LA Dodgers.