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TIL That Animators In Japan Are So Underpaid And Overworked Fans Started A Charitable Foundation Just So Struggling Anime Artists Could Survive In Tokyo.

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DKBr TIL that the FBI maintains their own Bitcoin wallet that consists of seized Bitcoins.
PYDvn TIL before lending his song In Your Eyes to the film Say Anything, Peter Gabriel asked to see the movie. He was sent a copy, and Gabriel approved the use of his song, but said he was uneasy about the main character’s overdose at the end; the studio had mistakenly sent him the film Wired instead.
KOPe4 TIL it took 3 grips to restrain Sean Connery from killing the Camera Man on the set of Zardoz (1974) after the Camera man accidentally opened the camera and exposed a days worth of film. That day's filming involved Connery in heavy makeup, which he hated, so he was furious to have to film it again
b6GOZ TIL the first all black broadway product, Shuffle Along, original run was so poor that at some points they could only get second hand costumes but by end of it's broadway run it had earned $9million dollars.
VMk9G TIL fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear, including ropes, oyster spacers, eel traps, crates, and baskets.