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TIL The infamous paperclip, Clippy, was an early animation project by ‘Deadpool’ director Tim Miller’s studio, Blur Studio.

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Qa5e TIL passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in the world. John James Audubon once saw a flock that took three days to pass. Alexander Wilson reckoned that a flock he saw contained 2,230,272,000 individuals. The bird was hunted to it’s extinction, which came on September 1, 1914.
ELdV TIL a bidet is considered a key green technology and uses significantly less water, electricity, and wood than a single roll of toilet paper
LoNQ TIL Space shuttles have blunt tips creating as much drag as possible to create a blanket of pressure protecting the shuttle from fire while entering earth’s atmosphere
wNgW TIL Freddie Mercury used a piano as a headboard for his bed and taught himself to play the piano backwards so if a song idea popped into his head when lying in bed, he could reach backwards and play it or record it.
BgxQD TIL programmer communities are filled with toxic and rude people, most of whom are men.