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TIL That during the shooting of the movie Evolution, Dreamworks asked the residents of Paige, AZ not to put up Holiday Decorations while they were filming in December. Later Dreamworks paid the city employees overtime to get the town decorated in time for Christmas.

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Eg5eW TIL Al Qaeda called out Iran for peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories.
vrA7 TIL the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (the largest study of its kind) concluded that human actions are depleting Earth’s natural capital in such a way that the ability of the planet’s ecosystems to sustain future generations can no longer be taken for granted.
b9jnE TIL about Twilight sleep, a procedure used for labor in the early 1900s. Women were drugged, restrained in a dark room with gauze on their eyes and ears plugged. The purpose of the drugs was to cause the women to forget the childbirth, not prevent pain, as they were still conscience the whole time.
YplrP TIL that green is the rarest eye color with only 2% of the world having it. brown is the most common at 70-79%
n0WG TIL that Jim Carrey wrote letters to Tupac Shakur when Tupac was in prison to help him laugh and smile.