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TIL Psychopaths Prefer Bitter Foods More than Normal People

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n11d TIL It took Pixar 29 hours to render a single frame from Monsters University. If done on a single CPU it would have taken 10,000 years to finish.
wLPZ6 TIL that singer Marvin Gaye was fatally shot the day before his birthday, by his own father (a Christian minister), by a gun that Marvin had gifted to him. Marvin was suicidal and physically hit his father because it was established that his father would kill any of his children who might do so.
W5O9 TIL The Hitler Youth passed out cyanide capsules to the audience at the March 28, 1945 performance of the Berlin Philharmonic.
XVZ8 TIL, In 2007 Comcast installed software/equipment on its networks to selectively interfere with customers’ TCP/IP connections which throttled upstream p2p bandwidth
Y768r TIL research scientists created a system to allow goldfish to drive a fish tank using cameras to track the fish bumping into walls to navigate towards a colored target for a reward. They changed starting positions and added decoys to prove the fish were navigating the environment not just memorizing