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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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g4Ay TIL that ancient Greeks invented the modern shower using piped water. Rich and poor used large locker-room showers with bars to hang up clothing. Ancient Romans did the same, bringing showers to as far as England. The systems and habits of bathing every day disappeared after the fall of Rome.
QxX9 TIL that Frozen’s Elsa was originally written as a villain. It wasn’t until the writers heard the song “Let It Go” that they decided to rewrite everything.
6Ebe7 TIL about the man who cut out his own appendix. The only doctor an an expedition to Antarctica, there was only one man and a bottle of whisky for the job.
8aebL TIL The NYPD had operatives in 13 countries.
Ool51 TIL that popcorn was the first food deliberately cooked with microwaves