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TIL that the same joke can be funny or not simply based on if its a standup vs casual conversation vs a movie

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QJk5d TIL While rendering Toy Story, Pixar named each and every rendering server after an animal. When a server completed rendering a frame, it would play the sound of the animal, so their server farm will sound like an actual farm.
nawd TIL that Habitat for Humanity has built more than 600,000 homes and helped more than 3,000,000 people around the world
pjQZ TIL that in the Second World War, the UK’s home guard ran out of rifles to issue to it’s soldiers, and ordered a quarter of a million medieval-era Pikes to be made to fight off the Nazis.
kO1R5 TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, where dumb people tend to over-estimate their own intelligence, when in fact they’re not even competent enough to recognize their own ineptitude.
KYrl6 TIL that Hooverball was a sport invented to keep President Herbert Hoover physically fit. It used a six-pound medicine ball and combined the mechanics of tennis and volleyball.