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TIL ticks are arachnids, so they have 8 legs

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RM19 TIL that while Pixar was making Toy Story 2, someone accidentally ran a Unix command which deleted the film’s data. It was restored thanks to an animator who kept a copy of the data at home so she could work on the movie while caring for her new baby.
mXjO TIL that this subreddit should be called “Today I Learnt” as learnt is the past tense of the verb (Today I Learnt) and learned is the past participle (Today I “Have” Learned)
gZXX TIL, a 400 year-old Bonsai tree had survived the United States’ atomic bomb on Hiroshima…then was later given to the United States as a national gift.
9j67 TIL that in the U.S., there were animal abuse laws before child abuse laws.
joVn TIL the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn’t get color-specific masks until their first cartoon aired in 1988