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TIL that turtles, like humans, can get decompression sickness (the bends).

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Yx1d TIL Disney studios used a multiplane camera which moves a number of pieces of artwork painted on glass past the camera at various speeds and at various distances from one another to create a three-dimensional effect.
PVJe TIL Shortly before his death Stanley Kubrick had all the outtakes and deleted scenes from his films destroyed. Burning “thousands of cans” of film so that no one could re-edit his movies.
oLl8 TIL our Milky Way is home to the darkest planet ever discovered, TrES-2b, the coal-black planet which absorbs almost 100% of the light that falls on it
9YN8G TIL in 1955, attempting to stand out as a journalist, Dan Rather did heroin and documented his experience.
BrYND Today I learned Y2K was never an issue because people spent years and over $100 billion USD to keep disaster from happening.