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TIL the famous FNAF jumpscare noise originated from an 80s horror movie called Inseminoid

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awemb TIL It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
b9N TIL that, as a way to detect nighttime predators, many species of animals (ducks, dolphins, whales, iguanas) will sleep with one eye open. One hemisphere of their brain is asleep while the other one is awake.
KOjvB TIL the most expensive marketing campaign ever done for a film was for Spider-Man: Far from Home
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Rxk9 TIL there is the machine which consists of twelve pairs of worms and gears. The input gear makes 4 revolutions in a minute and the output gear thus makes 1 revolution in 2.3 trillion years and is embedded in a block of solid concrete. This machine represents time frames astrophysicist deal with.