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TIL that Pixar’s 3D rendering engine is available for free.
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TIL A Pennsylvania man electrocuted his wife using nipple clamps and tried to pass it off as an accident. He is serving 20-40 years in prison.
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TIL that scientists have successfully created cheese using human bacteria collected from toes and belly buttons.
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TIL of the “Mormon Lost Boys:” young men who are ejected from polygynous communities to reduce competition and ensure enough females for a 3:1 f/m ratio. They are often dumped on the highway and told not to return, they are “dead” to their families.
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TIL that Tchaikovsky received financial support from a patron that allowed him to pursue a career as a full-time composer. However, the patron stipulated that they should never meet in person.
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TIL Watson and Crick, famous for discovering the DNA double helix model, essentially stole their information from female scientist Rosalind Franklin.