› added 12 years ago

226

TIL During the production of Monsters Inc, it normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands. That’s 288 hours for every second of animation!

Read more imdb.com

via reddit.com

Y7Lex TIL The X Games have never drug tested athletes
9wDop TIL about ELIZA, a 1960s chatbot created by MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum that simulated a psychotherapist. It was so convincing that some users, including Weizenbaum's secretary, became emotionally attached to it. In 2023, ELIZA even outperformed GPT-3.5 in a Turing test study.
7LM TIL much of what we know about pirates comes from a single primary source with questionable reliability.
9wWl7 TIL more people attended a 3rd division football match in the U.K. than the Super Bowl in most years
mxemE TIL about the Shell Grotto in Margate, UK. An underground set of tunnels and passages covered from floor to ceiling in a mosaic made of seashells. It’s age and purpose remain unknown.