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TIL that in 2006, an anti-scammer convinced an email scammer to send him a detailed wooden carving of a Commodore 64.

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KYBgE TIL 30,000 years ago, Stone Age artists created the earliest form of animation. One example is an illustration of an eight legged Bison. Assisted by flickering torch light, this painting would appear to run.
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