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TIL, animators who failed while working on other projects within Dreamworks, were often sent to work on Shrek. The reassignment was known as being "Shreked" and being sent to "the Gulag".

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pYJ8Q TIL: There's a fifth special symbol in bowling score system for registering a Split in the card. (The other four symbols are "X" for Strike, "/" for Spare, "-" for Error and "F" for Foul.)
bEnZ TIL After Columbus’s first voyage, he described the natives as “so naive and so free with their possessions…When you ask for something…they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone…” He promised from his next voyage “as much gold…and as many slaves” as the crown asks.
rRgy TIL that the Australians had a warship named Doomba in WWII. It served as a minesweeper.
VMEkk TIL Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man, etc) wore a Superman cape underneath his clothing until he was 13, "just in case there was trouble."
E1Rww TIL that Thomas Young proved that light is a wave, described elasticity, capillary action, explained how our eyes focus and see color, compared the grammar and vocabulary of 400 languages, deciphered hieroglyphs and contributed to music theory. He is called "The Last Man Who Knew Everything".