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TIL Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Walking Dead) worked on a script for ‘Indiana Jones 4’ for over a year; the results loved by Spielberg and Harrison Ford. George Lucas hated the drafts however, and Darabont told Lucas 'You’re insane’ before leaving the project.

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KOyeR TIL about Anthony Pellicano, a Hollywood fixer recently released after 15yrs in prison for multiple indictments, he walked out to a six-figure trust funded by high level execs and Hollywood stars for his silence while incarcerated.
xVak1 TIL the computer program that created the THX "Deep Note" (before a movie screening) was coded to be random. The audio you hear was recorded one time and can never be recreated exactly by that computer again.
gMwG4 TIL that Charles Young was the third African-American graduate of the United States Military Academy, the first black U.S. national park superintendent, first black military attaché, first black man to become a colonel in the United States Army, and highest-ranking black officer in the regular army
6aX TIL that the Irish Elk was the largest deer which ever lived. They would often grow to 7ft at the shoulders and they had the largest antlers of any known deer at 12ft from tip to tip
xMa1 TIL in the Star Wars universe there is a Sith lord, Darth Vectivus, who became a Sith strictly out of curiosity. He maintained the ethics he’d kept as a businessman, engaged in no extreme violence, used the Dark Side of the Force as a tool for study, and died at his home among friends and family.