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TIL that the Half Life 2 image Corpse01.mdl they used for zombies was a real burnt face taken from a medical journal

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KEe4 TIL the musician Moby is the great-great-great-grandnephew of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick
WkXno TIL about the art piece "Machine with Concrete" by Arthur Ganson. It's a series of gears and screws driven at 200RPM that end in a final gear embedded in concrete. At that speed it will take over 2 trillion years for the final gear to turn once.
l7eya TIL that a small herd of cows in Germany were trained to use special toilets in an effort to curb pollution
xwAD TIL An amateur Canadian weatherman predicted, in his own words, an unpredictable earth quake 3 weeks before it hit New Zealand.
N7peN TIL USPS trucks get 10 Miles to the gallon and are over 25 years old