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TIL the worlds first ever half-hour, completely computer-animated TV series was the Canadian show ReBoot.

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a89bM TIL; The company that used to be Philip Morris (Marlboro) used to own the company that makes Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (now Kraft Heinz.)
w4dW TIL mad scientists attached a rat’s brain to an F-22 simulator and taught it how to fly in 2004
nayG TIL that Alberta, Canada is the only inhabited region on Earth that is free of Norwegian rats.
eWW5 TIL A man named Leland Stanford made a bet that all of a horses hooves leave the ground when it gallops. He placed the bet at $25,000 and won with the help of photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge later, was the first to make a moving picture.
p8XB4 TIL in ancient Korea, rice was used as currency and to pay taxes. A rice payment law was even put in place during the 1600s which mandated collecting rice for state taxes. Consumption of rice was mostly limited to those from a higher socioeconomic status during this time.