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TIL of Alex the parrot,the only non human animal to ever ask an existential question

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PY9WJ TIL that only 3 of the 15 highest grossing movies from the 1980s haven't been given a sequel, prequel or turned into a franchise. Those movies are E.T, Tootsie, and Rain Man.
x6EyB TIL australia is such a poor and backwards country that the "democracy sausages" they use to bribe people to vote, are not even given to them in buns, they put it in a regular slice of bread instead
5v1P TIL During the first meeting between Lecter and Starling, Anthony Hopkins’s mocking of Jodie Foster’s southern accent was improvised on the spot. Foster’s horrified reaction was genuine; she felt personally attacked. She later thanked Hopkins for generating such an honest reaction.
QNZn6 TIL about the "Law of Triviality" which states that individuals give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.
6EEDY TIL the revolutionary Sega Model 2 arcade system used 3D texture mapping directly licensed from Lockheed Martin, which had developed the technology for use in military flight simulators