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TIL that IBM made a movie, quite literally, out of atoms.

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xeO0 TIL that the sounds of the TIE fighters in star wars were a combo of an elephant call and a car driving on wet pavement
6v1J TIL if you rub a grasshopper’s hind leg for five seconds every minute for four hours, it will trigger its brain to transform, swarm, and become locust