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TIL Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion instead of CGI, but two artists worked on a CGI T-Rex in secret, and once they finished it, they quietly put a video of it on screen when Kathleen Kennedy visited their office. the video convinced Kennedy, Spielberg, and the rest of the team to use CGI.

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Lnmv TIL that a mother wanted her daughter to make the cheerleading squad so bad, she hired a hitman to kill the mother of a girl already on the team with the belief that she would be so devastated by her mother’s death that she would drop out off the squad, thereby giving the spot to her daughter.
V8Em TIL Stephen Hawking refuses to upgrade his voice program to a more natural sound because he considers it to be “his own personal voice”
69Yd7 TIL that in 1922, a conductorless orchestra modelled on Marxist ideas formed in the Soviet Union. A committee decided tempos and playing styles. However, they found tempo changes difficult due to not having a leader to guide them, and were disbanded 10 years later by Stalin.
6E19X TIL that depending on the situation, a mass of fire ants can act as either a liquid or a solid.
awpBZ TIL Seagulls can drink salt water, as well as fresh water, as they possess exocrine glands located in supraorbital grooves of the skull by which salt can be excreted through the nostrils to assist the kidneys in maintaining electrolyte balance