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TIL: CocoMelon and PawPatrol create zombie-kids

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adaZ TIL that the speeding up mechanism in Space Invaders was actually unintentional - the processor was just ‘more efficient when there were fewer objects on screen’
DQdYP TIL that you can pay $250,000 (£195,000) for an eight-day trip, including a submarine to the wreck of the Titanic at a depth of 3,800m (12,500ft)
R5NoQ TIL about Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine. Operating from around the early 1990s to 2018, this machine would dispense rare discontinued beverages. Supposedly the nearby businesses had no idea who was restocking the machine. After the machine disappeared a note was left saying "Went for a walk".
EVm0 TIL that after arriving in Los Angeles at 19, a broke Charlize Theron tried to cash a check from her mother to pay for rent, but the teller refused. She got into a shouting match with him, drawing the attention of a talent agent behind her, who introduced her to casting agents and an acting school.
LwLm TIL that the reason for Yogi Bear’s collar is that it allowed animators to keep his body static, redrawing only his head in each frame when he spoke — a method that reduced the number of drawings needed for a seven-minute cartoon from around 14,000 to around 2,000