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TIL carrots used to be purple until they were bred orange.
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TIL A zip bomb, also known as a zip of death or decompression bomb, is a malicious archive file designed to crash or render useless the program or system reading it. 42.zip was 42kilobytes when compressed but increased to 4.5 petabytes when decompressed.
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TIL The name of the Ghibli animation studio was chosen because of Miyazaki's interest in airplanes, this is the nickname of an Italian aircraft with the full name Caproni Ca.309. In addition, in Italian, it means hot wind in the desert.
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TIL the Mcdonalds’ McRib sandwich is made of over 70 ingredients. The bun only contains 32.
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TIL: There was a powerful geomagnetic storm that made it possible for people to observe auroras not just on the poles but all over the globe.
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TIL, Tommy Wiseau's 'The Room' became the first movie ever to be shot in both 35 MM film and HD simultaneously