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TIL The kid’s television show LazyTown used Unreal Engine during filming to render it’s environments in real time.

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xVLxk TIL The Outsiders was written by a girl in high school, because she was unsatisfied with the YA books available at the time.
VeR4 TIL - New York’s underground gay bars of the 1960’s (including the Stonewall Inn) were actually created and supported by the Mafia. It was illegal to be gay. The mob paid off local precincts to keep them from doing raids.
R55kl TIL that in the 1920s, canned turtle soup was considered a delicacy in England and turtle riding was a major draw card in the 50s
9YJMm TIL in the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford University, a bell that has been ringing, nonstop, for at least 175 years. It's powered by a single battery that was installed in 1840.
9w4Em TIL In his later years Hugh Hefner received $1 million annually for all of his Playboy shares and paid $100/year to live in the Playboy Mansion