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8mKP TIL a fire burned down the warehouse of the animation company behind the Wallace and Gromit films, destroying “the entire history” of the animation series.
9Yerm TIL students at Saint Andrews University in Scotland have a tradition of stripping off their clothes and running into the freezing sea
ZpyNa TIL in 1976 Libya demanded neighboring Tunisia cease deployment of a massive military vehicle near it's border or risk escalation. The offensive military vehicle was a Jawa Sandcrawler being built on the set of a movie.
ADE8B TIL of "Zonal" languages. Zonals are like universal languages but for a specific language family. Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages would all have their own "Zonal" designed using familiar rules/logic/alphabet/etc. The goal is promoting greater regional cohesion in a language zone.
7rm9O TIL I suffer with Laryngospasm. During the night I wake up choking on my own stomach acid.