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TIL Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

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VMpwp TIL: Avatar (2009 Film) required 4,000 servers, 35,000 CPU Cores, 104 TB of RAM, and 3 PB of Network Area Storage in a 10,000 sq ft farm to render the movies effects
45xb TIL Lagunita Brewing Company has a beer called Undercover Shutdown Ale, which is named as such because after a stakeout of their brewery, no charges were filed because “no one was willing to sell it to them (officers), but everyone was willing to give it to them for free.”
nWKLG TIL that teeth are not bones. Bones are living tissue, but teeth are primarily mineral, with the pulp being the sole living part. This is why bones can regenerate, but teeth can not
vvV8 TIL there is a race of African people called the Khoisan who are copper-skinned, have epicanthal folds (like “Asian” eyes), and have a high incidence of large butts and labia.
NXOoP TIL that despite spanning five geographical time zones, China officially uses just one—Beijing Time (UTC+8)!