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TIL 9 patients in Austin Texas accounted for 2700 emergency room visits over a six year span costing tax payers 3 million dollars.

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pY4QO TIL about "Go motion" a stop motion technique created by Phil Tippet in which they animate puppets connected to computers that record movements, then just filming the puppet being articulated by the computer replaying the movements it had recorded, all in order to avoid adding artificial motion blur
rV8e TIL that in Australia you can be charged with supplying drugs based purely on text messages. No need for the police to see drugs / money change hands or find drugs on either person.
0OB1 TIL that Michigan has a bottle deposit of 10 cents, instead of the usual 5 cents. Their recycle rate is 97%, compared to 70% of states with bottle deposits, compared to 33% for states without any deposit laws.
RkW9 TIL daschunds look like they do because they were bred to hunt badgers and other animals that live in burrows
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