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TIL Batman the Animated Series had a unique drawing style. The animators used light colors on black paper, the complete opposite of the animation industry standard.

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yQZNM TIL One of the few remaining trams which survived the Hiroshima bomb has been restored to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack. It has been repainted its original colours - blue and grey - and has video testimony from survivors on board
rRWx0 TIL despite being worth €37.3 billion the founder of IKEA drove an old Volvo, travelled by economy class, brought a lunch box to work, visited vegetable street markets right before they closed for the day, hoping to get better prices and shopped for clothes at the local flea markets.
EE8W TIL that an AI tought itself a human language by reading a videogame’s manual. After that it’s win rate in that game increased from 46% to 79%.
OkLL TIL that in 2012, the CEO of Lenovo received a $3 million bonus as a reward for record profits which he in-turn redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo’s employees. He did this again in 2013.
L7vr TIL In 1904 a woman borrowed $5 million dollars from US Banks because people thought she was Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate child. She wasn’t.