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TIL it took 6 hours to render one frame of the rain soaked T-Rex in Jurassic Park.

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4XGMX TIL Falcons are more closely related to parrots and songbirds than to other birds of prey
j6yMQ TIL about the Ham Sandwich Theorem, which states that states that given n measurable "objects" in n-dimensional Euclidean space, it is possible to divide each one of them in half (with respect to their measure, e.g. volume) with a single (n − 1)-dimensional hyperplane.
P1AaO TIL: 7% of the people that have ever lived on earth are alive today!
4kdgo TIL in 1942, the British government bought ALL the black tea available on the european market, considering it essential for the morale of their troops in North Africa
Ob5e TIL that your nose is always visible to you. Your mind ignores it through a process called Unconscious Selective Attention.