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TIL For 'The Falcon and the Winter Soldier', Sony Imageworks recreated New York City digitally at a 1:1 scale for the final battle sequences

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e59J TIL of “Benny’s Rules”, a complex, incorrect “mathematics” a student came up with that enabled him to pass math tests for years
wowQ8 TIL Biting insects continue to be used as sutures in parts of Africa and South America. The edges of the wound are brought together, and an ant is allowed to bite through both ‘lips’; when its jaws are firmly locked, the insect’s thorax and abdomen are broken off, leaving the head and jaws.
WkDDd TIL it's a tradition in Dawson City to drink a shot with a real (dead) human toe in it
oZyr TIL: Empedocles, 5th century Greek philosopher most known for the development of the idea of the Four Elements, also concluded that matter could neither be created nor destroyed, and developed a theory of evolution concluding that form followed function and that the most fit survived.
wa56 TIL the drink called “punch” has no relation to punching and instead comes from the Sanskrit for “five”, since it was made with five ingredients in India