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TIL the first ever piece of computer animation was the title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo

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yQ5j8 TIL: Charles J. Guiteau who assassinated US President James A. Garfield, intentionally used a gun that would look nice in a museum.
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LjOd TIL Approximately 95% of the world population has a natural immunity to leprosy
4Xy1J TIL that there was a "Human Zoo" exhibit at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair where the Ministry of Colonies built a Congolese exhibit to demonstrate their claim to have "civilized" the "primitive Africans."
Y7ZG7 TIL there is a global cycling race circuit for 2-year olds. They race 12”, pedalless “balance bikes”. A recent race had 250 participants ages 2-4.