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TIL Georgia is not named after Saint-George. The name rather derives from the Persian word for wolf, gurğ, and the region was referred to as Gorgan, or “land of the wolves”, for the heroic people who inhabited the territory. Its English name is a back-derivation of what was assumed to be George.

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pY4QO TIL about "Go motion" a stop motion technique created by Phil Tippet in which they animate puppets connected to computers that record movements, then just filming the puppet being articulated by the computer replaying the movements it had recorded, all in order to avoid adding artificial motion blur
kYQg TIL James Cameron sketched Jack’s nude portrait of Rose for the film Titanic
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