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TIL A Million People in China Live in Underground Nuclear Bunkers

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4kPXR TIL TV shows love hiring twins for newborn roles. Twins double the filming time (they swap them out) and, since they’re often born premature and smaller, they look more like fresh newborns on screen, even if they’re actually a few weeks old.
OOpe TIL that, according to an NYC medical examiner, “Your golden retriever might sit next to your dead body for days, starving, but the tabby won’t. Your cat will eat you right away, with no qualms at all.”
d85E8 TIL Sony released a camera in 1998 that could see through people's clothes. It included an infrared powered night mode that consumers realized could turn dark fabric and swimsuits transparent. Sony sold 700k "x-ray cameras" before fixing the issue in manufacturing.
kOeO4 TIL after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite it when playing, allowing him to perfectly hear through vibrations in his jawbone.This process is called Bone Conduction.
LQvVp TIL the first AI generated image was created in the 1970s