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TIL Nelson Mandela's Handprint Naturally Makes a Shape of Africa.

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9wAdQ TIL in the 1987 movie Robocop, the city hall building of Dallas, Texas was used as OCP headquarters. Matte paintings were used to make the building appear taller.
5Yn1r TIL Peter Jackson made a huge push to get Andy Serkis nominated for his role as Gollum in ‘Lord of the Rings.’ The Academy denied his request, stating that the motion-capture performance was ineligible as it “technically wasn’t the actor being nominated for the role, but rather the character.”
woKlP TIL that Emery is the third form of Corundum, after Sapphire and Ruby, is what Emery Boards are made of, and has been mined in Greece since antiquity.
VBplm TIL that if the entire observable universe were shrunk to the size of the earth (12000 km diameter), the earth would be about 180th of the size of an atom
7ajO TIL that the word “Sniper” refers to a hunter skilled enough to shoot a snipe, a small and fast bird.