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TIL Rich Moore, director of Wreck-It Ralph, was a director of several Simpsons Episodes in the early 90s, including the original Tree House of Horrors

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8w5K TIL Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have expressed their desire to see the search engine become artificial intelligence itself. To achieve that goal, they created the highly-protected “X lab.”
9DJr TIL People have gone missing from cruise ships. There have been 200 incidents of missing people since the year 2000. Generally, what happens is the person isn’t even reported missing until after their luggage goes unclaimed, which significantly decreases their chances of being found.
69WbW TIL about Intercollegiate Meat Judging. Where American Universities compete against one another to see which team can best evaluate cuts of beef, pork and lamb based on criteria such as quality, yield grading, and eye-balling the quantity of fat v. muscle.
vWOB TIL that this day, in 1935, it became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s complaint that aircraft disturb his sleep prompts the new law.
1G1X TIL for chickens to be considered ‘free range’, an outdoor access for an 'undetermined period’ each day is the only requirement, even if it’s only for 5 minutes.