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TIL Batman The Animated Series was drawn on black paper to make the city/atmosphere feel dark

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okGK Today I learned that Autotune was originally invented for use by geologists
JYOVl TIL It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion
dDN79 TIL that the infamous Pac-Man kill screen is caused by an overflow error causing the game to try and draw 256 pieces of fruit. However, the code then starts drawing random garbled pieces of memory, causing half the screen to get covered in random graphics that the game interprets as fruit.
Jd0k TIL that a blogger found out that Ice Cube’s “Good Day” was January 20, 1992 due to events desrcibed in the song only occurred on that day.
xdLB TIL Lafayette, a Frenchman who served as a General in the Revolutionary War, toasted to ‘the perpetual union of the United States. It has always saved us in times of storm; one day it will save the world.’ In 1917, an American officer gave a speech at his grave in Paris; 'Lafayette, we are here.’