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amgy TIL the infamous “It’s a UNIX system!” scene in Jurassic Park is using an actual 3D file explorer called fsn.
4kppw TIL Charles Dickens had a talking pet raven named Grip, who terrorized his dog, buried valuables in the yard, and died eating "a pound or two" of lead paint. As a character in one of his novels, Grip is believed to have inspired Poe's famous poem, and is on display in a Philadelphia public library
v1op8 TIL the words you use when questioning witnesses greatly affects their answer. They showed study participants video of a car crash and asked them to estimate the speed. Their estimates got progressively larger when using the verbs contacted, hit, bumped, collided, smashed in the question.
jN8JR TIL that a catholic altar boy born in Boston dropped out of school, came to Jamaica and then join an Ethiopian Zion Church which he further transformed into an international drug network. The organization was later indicted in Florida for smuggling over 100 tons of marijuana.
8e47Z TIL the American Amusement Machine Association has created a color-coded content rating system for arcade games. Games for all ages are labeled green, while games with “mild” and “strong content” are labeled yellow and red respectively.