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TIL “new car smell” is carcinogenic.

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QOYk TIL The “Take On Me” video used a pencil-sketch animation / live-action combination called rotoscoping, in which the live-action footage is traced over frame by frame to give the characters realistic movements. Approximately 3,000 frames were rotoscoped, which took 16 weeks to complete.
dla8 TIL Scientists Just Invented the Neural Lace which would allow your brain to connect to the internet.
E9VW TIL Costa Rica has had absolutely no military forces for 64 years
Yb07 TIL that it is possible to sail in a straight line from Pakistan to the east coast of Russia without ever hitting a land mass or changing directions, nearly 20,000 miles.
LkAXQ TIL that NFL coach Jon Gruden and actor Dean Norris (best known for playing Hank Schrader on "Breaking Bad") attended high school together in South Bend, Indiana.