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TIL that Australia uses the motion of the ocean to generate zero-emission electricity and desalinate water simultaneously

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RM19 TIL that while Pixar was making Toy Story 2, someone accidentally ran a Unix command which deleted the film’s data. It was restored thanks to an animator who kept a copy of the data at home so she could work on the movie while caring for her new baby.
Wjbo TIL McDonald’s was originally “McDonald’s Bar-B-Que” until they realized that its main profit came from hamburgers, then they closed the place for 2 months and changed the food they served to just hamburgers, french fries, shakes, soft drinks, and apple pie, and also made the idea of fast food.
x6pxo TIL Simon Wells, great-grandson of science fiction author H.G. Wells (who, among other works, wrote “The Time Machine”) was hired as a “Future consultant” for Back to the Future Part II.
LkGLZ TIL that Spain is only second to Cambodia in forced disappearances, with about 145,000 victims during the Franco dictatorship, and no one has been tried for it, since institutions kept essentially the same officers after democracy was reinstated.
wPVE TIL that a german author wrote a bestselling book about Hitler waking up in 2011 and trying to re-establish the third Reich