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LkV7m TIL while animating Ratatouille, a Pixar employee jumped into a pool while wearing a chef’s outfit and hat to determine how it would cling to a character’s body and what parts would become translucent.
vPjaL TIL that during WW2, Germany made margarine from coal
l760A TIL the obese man smoking a cigarette on the cover of Fatboy Slim's You've Come a Long Way Baby has yet to be identified.
1aRLP TIL that when the VCR was invented, film companies tried to make it illegal due to the possibility of recording copyrighted material, in a case which reached the Supreme Court. The head of the MPAA compared the effect of the VCR on television to that of the Boston Strangler on women.
mglp TIL the brains of cockroaches carry some serious antibiotics, strong enough to slaughter bacteria that have evolved resistance to the hospital antibiotics we humans use