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TIL that Kraft’s Jello monitors the ratio of smiley to frowney emoticons on Twitter, and releases coupons whenever the Twittersphere was unhappy.

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e05K4 TIL The extreme effect of the solar eclipse eye “sunburn” is a condition called solar retinopathy, which is sun blindness caused by overstimulation of the retina. The retina has no pain receptors, so people who burn their retinas won’t feel it until their vision becomes defective several days later
oBELA TIL famed Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, upon being approached for his first album in 1955, disregarded objections from studio executives and played Bach's Goldberg Variations, a piece almost unknown at the time. The recording became an instant best-seller and immediately launched Gould's career.
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.
JYQ64 TIL that if you are a driver in the United Kingdom you are required by the law to stop and report to the police if you run over a dog, a horse, a cattle, a pig, a goat, a sheep, a donkey and a mule, but not if you run over a deer, a cat, a badger or a fox.
M9e7 TIL cowboys have been going to the Eurasian steppe to help the people there restore their cattle-herding way of life they had before the USSR, and that cowboys’ practices ultimately come from that region