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TIL that Adobe was shocked that its software was being used in Blue’s Clues’ production by Nickelodeon. Adobe’s developers never knew it could be used to create character animation on the scale that Blue’s Clues was using.

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5A7r TIL Marvel created a superhero who wears a hearing aid after they learned of a boy who refused to wear one because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids”
KYlJ TIL that a Greek soldier chased his dog across the border resulting in a Bulgarian invasion. It was called the “War of the Stray Dog”.
VVpD TIL some women are tetrachromats, with four color-receptive cones instead of the usual three. These women are able to distinguish colors that most of us simply cannot see.
mRYO TIL in feudal hierarchy of Japan, merchants were the lowest class because unlike farmers and artisans, they don’t actually produce anything. Samurai warriors were in the topmost class.
rRbry TIL before Guy Fieri was a Food Network star, he worked at Flowmaster also doing commercials selling mufflers.