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TIL that “sugar rushes” aren’t real and are just a psychological/cultural effect of parental influence.

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Mexj7 TIL that despite being considered a watershed moment in terms of computer effects in film, there are only 6 minutes of CGI dinosaur screentime "Jurassic Park", less than 5% of its runtime.
WkRKX TIL Walt Disney had a neat little private apartment above the fire house off the Town Square in Disneyland complete with with a 2nd floor terrace. Even today there is always a lamp burning in the window above the old firehouse
MeBKm TIL that Kleenex was invented and intended as a paper filter for gas-masks during World-War I.
mooE TIL that in 2013 a Georgia man was arrested for plugging his car in at a school for 20 minutes and “stealing” 5 cents worth of electricity. He wasn’t the first electric-car owner to be so charged.
gMArL TIL The Solar System can never come into perfect alignment. The last time they appeared even in the same part of the sky was over 1,000 years ago, in the year AD 949, and they won’t manage it again until 6 May 2492.