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TIL 35mm film has a digital equivalent of 6K resolution, while 70mm film has the digital equivalent of 12K resolution

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LkpJv TIL during the filming of Interview with the Vampire, a shallow trench was dug for Brad Pitt to walk alongside Tom Cruise so that their significant height disparity wouldn't be apparent on camera.
Lkxe0 TIL Sir Frederick Banting, the Nobel-Prize-winning discoverer of insulin, created the first private biological weapon research centre in 1940. Soon afterwards, the US government was also pressed to perform such research by their British allies who feared a German attack with biological weapons.
loGJ1 TIL: The entire EU plus a dozen other countries including the US, Brazil, Turkey, and Kazakhstan are part of a huge treaty requiring countries to pursue child support payments levied in other member countries.
loXMr TIL EA had to do a mass recall of the video game 'Tiger Woods 99', because somebody hid an entire episode of South Park inside it
oBE4Y TIL skateboarding started to appear in China after an American skateboarder traveled to Beijing to study Chinese in 1986. There wasn't a Chinese word for skateboarding at the time he arrived.