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TIL Chris Wedge (the voice of Ice Ages Scrat) made an animated short film while in Ohio State University in 1985.

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76VP TIL Despite continuous usage of the flag to represent Nova Scotia, Canada since 1858, the flag was only official recognized as the provincial flag in May 2013, after an eleven-year-old girl researching a project realized that no one had recognized the flag officially in 155 years of usage.
oBWYA TIL The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of Earth is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined
DEPr TIL Roger Deakins, Director Of Photography for films like Skyfall and No Country For Old Men stopped shooting documentaries because he witnessed a schizophrenic woman have an episode and his parter wanted to keep filming. Deakins instead decided to put the camera down and help the woman.
6D08 TIL that a woman with no criminal history spent a month in jail after cops found what they thought was a spoon with meth residue. She was released after tests confirmed the “meth residue” was spaghetti sauce.
XErWk TIL about "The Demon Core", a mass of plutonium that was responsible for the death of two scientists on two separate occasions.