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TIL the moon is shaped like an egg!

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KvkJ TIL of MASSIVE, a software package used to generate thousands of actors with their own artificial intelligence. It was used to generate the battle scenes in the Lord of the Rings films.
pYx7Z TIL Colorado’s Department of Transportation regularly shuts down one of its major interstates on sunny mornings due to extreme sun glare
KYMn6 TIL about the Niland Geyser, a mud spring that actually moves from one place to another. Engineers even tried to stop it from impinging on the Union Pacific Railroad, but failed.
b4G0 TIL: in 1998 Microsofts “DirectX” team pitched a new gaming console known as the “directXbox”. Later shortened to “Xbox”.
ZrXo TIL that when U.S. soldiers encountered the Tokay gecko in the jungles of Vietnam during the Vietnam war, they found its mating call sounded similar to the phrase “fuck you” - giving it the informal name “fuck-you lizard”.