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TIL that computers are incapable of producing randomness so when perfoming tasks like procedural generation they use outside sources like the mouse position or the fan noise as a starting point or even use "pseudorandom" generation algorithms using pre-made numbers.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 01:33AM by XxironicxX_2
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TIL Don Rickles past away before he was able to record any dialogue for Toy Story 4. Rather than replacing him, Disney reviewed 25 years of material from the first 3 films,video games,and other media; they were able to assemble enough dialogue to cover the entire film!
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 02:59AM by dmavs420
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TIL the Milton Hershey School was established in 1909 by the chocolate tycoon and his wife, as a school for poor orphans. Milton Hershey left his entire fortune to the school, including a controlling interest in the Hershey Company, and it now has an endowment in excess of $12 billion.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 04:15AM by jcd1974
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TIL The original English version of the Deck the Halls line "don we now our gay apparel" was "fill the meadcup, drain the barrel"
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 03:33AM by savveasy
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TIL that in 1978 an architectural student discovered that a skyscraper in NY could topple if strong winds hit the building. The engineer that is credited for designing the building then made secret nightly repairs in collaboration with the NYPD, without alerting the general public to the danger
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 09:34AM by Torostein
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TIL Die Hard is not only based on a book, it’s a sequel and the original starred Frank Sinatra
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 07:28AM by LoPellegrino
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TIL NFL player Pat Tillman joined the army after 9/11 but became opposed to the war while oversees. He was then killed by a soldier standing less than 10 yards from him during friendly fire. His unit then burned his journal and the army lied to his family, claiming he'd been killed by the enemy.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 03:34PM by 123123123423
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TIL a tiny English village twinned itself with Paris after writing to the Mayor of Paris proposing a twinning, receiving no reply, assuming it was fine, and so put up road signs declaring it official.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 02:35PM by InappropriateSurname
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TIL that during the response to a major bridge collapse in Oklahoma in 2002, an ex-con took command of the disaster site by impersonating a US Army Captain. He directed FBI agents, appropriated vehicles and equipment and lead the rescue/recovery effort for two days before fleeing the scene.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 04:38PM by kirkl3s
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TIL When Steven Spielberg re-enrolled at California State, Long Beach to earn his BA more than 30 years after dropping out, he was given three course credits in paleontology for making Jurassic Park.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 05:16PM by seash_
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TIL Nim Chimpsky was a chimpanzee raised like a human child by a surrogate family as part of a controversial project on animal language acquisition. During his lifetime, Nim learned over 125 signs, including "stone smoke time now" which Nim used when he wanted to smoke marijuana.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 06:28PM by datalang
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TIL: Before electricity, theatrical groups would heat up calcium oxide, also known as quicklime, for stage lighting. This is where the expression “in the limelight” originates from. People use to literally be in the limelight.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 05:07PM by selfawarenessonion
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TIL- Ghyslain Raza, the "Star Wars Kid", had his video uploaded without permission. He left school due to depression, taking final exams in a psych unit, and sued the families of the uploaders. He later got his HS diploma, went to law school, and did a media tour speaking out against cyber-bullying.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 07:42PM by jburton24
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TIL that John Williams, the legend film composer (Star Wars, Indiana Jones) had problems with the musical timings in E.T.’s BMX chase scene. Steven Spielberg told him to record the music just as he wanted, he then edited the chase sequence around Willams’s Oscar winning soundtrack.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 03:52PM by exmoor456
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TIL a British pilot of a 747 announced to his passengers: Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress'. They landed safely with no injuries.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 02:05PM by Stuweb
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TIL that Joseph Kony, made infamous by the Kony 2012 documentary, has still never been captured and at this point is no longer being hunted.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 05:49PM by universaleric
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TIL: Hall of Fame Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan was in the league long enough to strikeout 7 pairs of fathers and sons when they eventually joined the league later on his career.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 07:09PM by Here-For-The-Comment
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TIL that there is an Antarctic dialect of English, which has developed among researchers in Antarctica who have their own slang and speech patterns. Since this is one of the few linguistically isolated areas in the world, it is being used to understand how dialects originate.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 09:55PM by theworkinglad
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TIL that Nazi soldiers would regularly take a type of crystal meth called Pervitin, which was considered a "superdrug," to enhance performance, reduce fatigue and drain them of their empathy, effectively turning them into "ruthless killing machines."
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 10:28PM by GreekMalaks
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TIL professors of universities during the Vietnam War inflated students' grades in order to help them avoid the draft.
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Submitted May 26, 2020 at 11:03PM by TaiwanFightsOn
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TIL moviegoers seeing "13 Ghosts" in 1960 could choose if they wanted to see the ghosts or not. The ghosts were added with a red filter on scenes with a blue filter. People were given viewers with red and blue cellophane, and depending on which one they looked through could "remove" the ghosts.
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Submitted May 27, 2020 at 01:13AM by F-O
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