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TIL that the raptors’ barking sounds in Jurassic Park were sampled from a recording of a tortoise having sex.

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ZpmPB TIL that in 2018 the Church of Latter Day Saints socially transitioned away from the name Mormon because it causes confusion about who they are and they find it offensive.
OGXEX TIL Alexander Fleming on discovering penicillin was quoted as saying: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”
le15 TIL that the Creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, helped two falsely accused men out of prison after solving the already closed cases.
PYvlL TIL Jurassic Park was meant to use stop motion instead of CGI, but two artists worked on a CGI T-Rex in secret, and once they finished it, they quietly put a video of it on screen when Kathleen Kennedy visited their office. the video convinced Kennedy, Spielberg, and the rest of the team to use CGI.
v9br TIL To put an end to the 2002 Nord-Ost siege in Moscow Russian officials decided to use a classified gas to put everyone inside asleep but the gas killed over 100 of the hostages while Russian officials would not tell doctors what was used in the gas.