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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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5Ol8 TIL that Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
Xjw8 TIL “Lucifer’s Gas” aka O2F2 is so reactive, it will combust anything warmer than -300F. It allegedly reacts even with Gold
p8VZp TIL That a man claims a taco saved his life in a shooting. The man said he would normally have had his window down with his arm on the edge, but he had it up because he didn't want pieces of his taco flying around. The bullet hit the window and deflected.
8aLGa TIL during Operation Desert Storm in Kuwait, 1991: a french Jaguars unit made a low-pass raid over Al-Jabr in the middle of Iraqi stronghold anti-aircraft fire, one pilot took a bullet on his head, 2 others were hit with reactor on fire, and all came back safe to the base.
m1Nvp TIL that Scrabo Tower was built in Northern Ireland to honor land owner Charles Stewart the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry because of his kindness to his tenants and servants during the Potato Famine. His effort to ease their suffering was rare in 1840’s Ireland during the famine.