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TIL the composition technology used in the penguin animation scene of Mary Poppins wasn't green/blue screen but actually a whole new process called Sodium Vapor Process. They only made one camera for it since they could never recreate the central piece of technology that made it work - a prism

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4XrkX TIL Alexander The Great Made his Troops Carry Licorice Root to help Quench Thirst
4Xx5R TIL in 1917 when Shackleton found rescue from a doomed expedition he took to the Antarctic in August, 1914, he asked how the war turned out. The answer was "the war isn't over. Millions are dead. Europe is mad. The world is mad."
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