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TIL that Pixar’s 3D rendering engine is available for free.

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x6g71 TIL that the first widely sold car rearview mirror wasn't a safety device. Instead, the 'Cop-Spotter' was intended to help you avoid the police. After the product launched in 1921, mirrors in cars grew increasingly popular, eventually being recognised as an essential safety feature.
VRd8 TIL that the term “hipster” originated in the 1940s, and was used to describe jazz afficionados, characterized by their “dress, slang, use of cannabis and other drugs, relaxed attitude, sarcastic humor, self-imposed poverty and relaxed sexual codes.”
xG01 TIL of a woman, Lizzie Velasquez, who was born with a rare disease called ‘neonatal progeroid syndrome’, that people consider to be, 'The ugliest woman in the world’ and how she turned into a positive role model and motivational speaker
VM9NQ TIL that the average person has sex 52 times per year... looks like I’m in for a crazy Thursday.
xVw90 TIL that Sultans of the Ottoman Empire immediately executed all their brothers as soon as they took the throne. One Sultan, Mehmed III, had all 19 of his brothers executed and buried alongside their father