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TIL that Australia's first cops were all criminals. Our first police force was made up of 12 of the best behaved convicts.

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XEEmj TIL that MASSIVE was CGI software developed to generate battle scene special effects in the Lord of the Rings films. It was later developed into a complete product and licensed out for use in other movies such as Avatar, The Hobbit, 300, & more.
DQoee TIL about Josh Pillault, a person who got 6 years in prison for making threats on the MMO game Runescape
R5wg9 TIL I learned about the precursor to the BASIC programming language: the Dartmouth Oversimplified Programming Experiment ... it's DOPE
d8djQ TIL about David Harding who was addicted to Irish sausages, eating up to 13 Irish sausages a day and often desperately searching for more. Noting "I genuinely cannot bear the thought of living without sausages" he sought counseling to deal with his addiction.
rRpj1 TIL Howie let loose a perfectly timed and pitched fart while recording “The Call” that fit so perfectly in the song that the producer and the rest of the Backstreet Boys decided to keep it in the final recording.