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TIL Bill Melendez (Director of Peanuts Animations) and Hawley Pratt (Director of Pink Panther Cartoons) while worked at Disney, before the strike they were friends and developed their own Naval Game with Toy Ships.

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XoYr TIL a teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh 100 million tons due to its immense density. For comparison, the Empire State Building is purported to tip the scales at a mere 350,000 tons. Also, the highest mountain a neutron star can support is only about 4 inches, making it a near-perfect sphere.
v1868 TIL that in 1991, the Russian news broadcaster Vremya had to shut down after a large number of the staff were discovered to be KGB agents.
5bRR TIL that a programmer developed an operating system called TempleOS since 2003. Hospitalized for mental health problems, he believes that TempleOS is literally the Third Temple as biblically prophesied. Per God’s “instructions,” the OS uses a 640x480, 16 color display, and uses the language HolyC.
e07mJ TIL Candace Newmaker, a child with "behavioral problems," was taken from her birth parents, adopted, and placed in controversial "rebirth therapy"... she was suffocated for 70 minutes and declared brain-dead afterwards
wM98 TIL: Post 9/11, every major US airline that exists today declared bankruptcy.