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TIL Peta Kills About 85% of the Animals They “Save”

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a5G0 TIL that a sparrow was shot because it knocked over 23000 domino bricks, just 4 days prior to the Domino Day Event. The shooter was later fined for shooting an endangered species.
4k6yN TIL that during Star Trek filming, censors required actresses not to show their navels. Gene Roddenberry was so irked by this that he made the villains in his 1973 TV movie "Genesis II" identifiable by each having two navels, thus filming each navel he’d previously been forced to censor twice over.
MB1b TIL that John Lasseter tried to pitch the idea of a fully computer-animated film to Disney, but the idea was rejected and Lasseter was fired, after that he went on and co-founded Pixar.
nWD0r TIL that Mongols OMC was founded by Hispanic Vietnam war veterans who weren't allowed to join the Hells Angels, which only had white members at the time.
dNL8 TIL, the US tried to get rid of the inhabitants of Diego Garcia by gassing the pets to death in front their owner to intimidate them and restricting their food and supplies so that it could build a military base.