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TIL Full-screen games monopolize the graphics card, so alt-tabbing requires the game to give that control up and the OS to take it back and start rendering the desktop again.

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1kO4 TIL Jiminy Cricket was initially drawn as a realistic cricket, but Disney wanted something more likable, so the supervising animator came up with what he described as a “little man with an egg head and no ears”, saying “the only thing that makes him a cricket is because we call him one.”
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