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TIL The Deadpool videogame cost more to make than Deadpool the movie - 100 Mn to 60Mn

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MWx0 TIL of laughing gas parties, where the British upper class would get high off of nitrous oxide
6EBlZ TIL only 1 woman ever won the medal of honour & they tried to take it away from her. She was an early feminist & nurse who refused to wear women’s clothing & was disliked by the leading suffragists who said she was giving the “wrong image” for her clothing style.
4X0pR TIL about the book “How to spot a Jap” issued to US soldiers in China during WWII. In it, they were told the Chinese are “about the size of an American”, has even teeth and walk in strides while the Japanese are buck-toothed, shuffle and look as if “their legs are directly attached to their chests”.
d88YB TIL That kangaroo leather is illegal in California
kOdr5 TIL about the MIT developed camera that uses terahertz radiation to read closed books. A fascinating breakthrough that could mean reading dated and delicate documents such as historic manuscripts without touching or opening them.