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TIL You Can 3D Print Any MP3 Into A Vinyl Record

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Z8DaY TIL that Aki Ross, the computer-generated protagonist of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, was intended to serve as the world's first CGI actress, using the same model and voice actress for different movies and characters. The movie lost $52 million, ending this plan.
N7daE TIL that before the coup d'état in 1953 Mohammad Mosaddegh was regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran’s modern history, and that the coup partly took place because Iran nationalized its oil industry.
epPwD TIL there is an inmate on Texas’ Death Row called William George Davis. He was a former nurse, who was sentenced for killing 4 people by injecting air into their arterial systems. He supposedly did this to extend the patients time in the ICU letting him earn more overtime pay.
mxKmY TIL the light emited by a wielding arc not only damages the eye, it also burn the skin within minutes, resulting in a 'sunburn'.
5VrdQ TIL a deer smashed thru a store called iSmash which is a place where you can smash things.