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TIL that while filming Zodiac, Robert Downey Jr would discreetly pee into jars and leave them in corners of the set as protest for not getting enough break time.

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Wy8A TIL the “Waffle House Index” is informally used by FEMA to determine storm impact and required disaster assistance. It’s based on the Waffle House restaurant chain’s reputation for staying open during extreme weather and reopening quickly after severe events like tornados or hurricanes.
Mw47 TIL The kid’s television show LazyTown used Unreal Engine during filming to render it’s environments in real time.
DQ0lD TIL Napalm, an incendiary mixture developed in 1942 at Harvard University, killed more Japanese in World War II than did the two atomic bomb blasts
5VP19 TIL: The image where the tongue folds the tip backwards and goes all the way into the nasal passage way is real- its name: Khechari Mudra.
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