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TIL that after finishing season 1 of Gravity Falls, creator Alex Hirsch was so burnt out that he almost considered not doing another one, until Jon Stewart and Pat McHale, creator of Over the Garden Wall, were able to convince him to do so.

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JY4nm TIL That during 2020 Nova Scotia Attack (Canada's worst murder spree), the RCMP tried to block the 911 recordings from being released to the public, because it proved they knew more the killers movements than they let on. As a resident of NS, I believe these need to be shared.
d8NvK TIL that Charles Kelman, a pioneer of phacoemulsification, a modern cataract surgery method, was also a successful jazz musician, entertainer and Broadway producer. He regularly appeared on TV shows in the 70's and 80's in part to promote his surgical innovations.
0dPjy TIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around today and is considered a useful way to index FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives.
1a4o7 TIL Otter capable of killing and eat alligator by drastically wearing out the gator in the fight. The lactic acid build up in the body would intoxicate the gator, eventually killing it. The otter then rips the alligator hide off with its razor sharp claws and eats the gator organs.
4XaLN TIL that human cells contain little massage chambers that gently nudge proteins back into the correct shape after they are damaged