Post * Wkpj4 — Curious Curator

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TIL While rendering Toy Story, Pixar named each and every rendering server after an animal. When a server completed rendering a frame, it would play the sound of the animal, so their server farm will sound like an actual farm.

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neB5W TIL that Nazis ordered the Minsk Ghetto to turn over a Jewish resistance leader, Hersh Smolar, hiding in a hospital. They handed over a bloody passport and said he'd been killed in a roundup shooting. The Nazis fell for it. Smolar survived the war.

y14V TIL That every jar of Vegemite ever made has come from the same factory in Melbourne, Australia since 1923

OwoR TIL Bill Murray tossed a producer into a lake during the filming of “What about Bob.” He also “threatened to throw her across the parking lot, then broke her sunglasses and threw them across the parking lot.”

1W18 TIL that in 2007 the U.S. Defence issued a warning that Canadians were planting spy coins on U.S. army visitors. Turned out to be quarters with the coloured remembrance day poppy.

e0R9J TIL That Alligators survive in freezing temperatures but sticking the tip of their mouths above water to breathe and entering a state called Brumation. They can survive like this for several months until the temperature finally warms up.