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TIL: When You’re Sleep-Deprived, Your Brain Literally Starts Eating Itself

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D4EV TIL that the first entirely computer generated movie sequence in cinema history was the Genesis Device demonstration video in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The studio that made the scene would later become Pixar.
j6yNj TIL that Babe Ruth constantly cheated on his wives during his baseball career. A detective that the New York Yankees hired to follow him one night in Chicago reported that Ruth had been with six women. Another player said that he was not Ruth's roommate while traveling; "I room with his suitcase".
djVj TIL one tonne of Thorium is equivalent to 200 tonnes of uranium or 3,500,000 tonnes of coal AND 3 times more abundant than uranium but we still dont use it would require “to great an investment and no clear payoff”
OGGLe TIL after basketball player Zion Williamson's foot ripped through his Nike shoe during a game, causing him to slip and sprain his knee, Nike's stock valuation dropped $1.1 Billion the next day
kdr4 TIL motorcycle helmets were invented by the neurosurgeon who attended to Lawrence of Arabia after his fatal motorcycle crash.