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TIL the end credits for The LEGO Movie were made in real stop-motion style, and those 3 minutes of content took 3 full time animators two months to create.

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ANRDd TIL the National Covid Memorial Wall is a 500 meter wall created in 2020 along the Thames in London to mark the lives lost to Covid in the U.K. It has more than 240,000 individually hand-painted red hearts, each representing a victim. Many hearts have messages left by the bereaved or by volunteers.
kGdW TIL of the Backfire Effect, in which wrongly held beliefs of people get stronger in the light of contradictory facts and evidence, not the other way around as typically expected.
6oX8 TIL that in 1942, 13-year-old Seaman Calvin Graham was decorated for valor in battle. Then his mother learned where he’d been and revealed his secret to the Navy.
d9AK TIL that in 1982 900 children from Mozambique went to East Germany to complete their secondary education and become the new socialist elite leaders of Mozambique. Problem was, when they returned in 1988, the Mozambique was no longer a socialist country
6Dv7 TIL that the Russian version of ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’ had to scrap the 'ask the audience’ lifeline as the audience would intentionally give the wrong answer.