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TIL At the Suomenlinna Prison in Finland, the only thing keeping the inmates in is a yellow picket fence.

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oPyE TIL the tool that is clapped together by film makers before filming a scene is called a “clapboard” and is used to synchronize the audio with the video later in production by matching the clapping sound with the movement of the clapboards arm.
6E6n7 TIL When Disney released “Fantasia 2000” it was the first feature length animated film to be shown in IMAX. IMAX had to agree to Disney’s screening terms, and since the California Science Center in LA did not, Disney built their own IMAX theater for the film’s 4mo run. Then demolished it afterward.
D1ynv TIL, The Blue Whale, largest animal on Earth which can grow to over 30 meters long, evolved from a land animal named Pakicetus that lived around 50 million years ago. Pakicetus was a four-footed mammal about the size of a wolf and it lived around what is now Pakistan.
4gEg TIL that entire species of animals became extinct due to ancient Rome’s thirst for entertainment in the Roman Colosseum.
N7GMJ TIL the first recorded child abuse case in the U.S. was prosecuted using animal cruelty laws, since there were no laws against child abuse at the time.