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TIL that Industrial Light & Magic created the visual effects for the 1988 film "Willow", which led to a breakthrough in digital morphing technology. The techniques developed for the sequence where one of the characters morphs into different animals, was later used for Terminator 2: Judgement day.

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pk1b TIL that Frank Buckles, the last surviving soldier of World War I, lived for 110 years and died in 2011. When asked about his secret for long life, he simply offered, “When you start to die… don’t.”
DPkP TIL that the Universe may exist in a false vacuum. If it dropped to a lower energy state in a vacuum metastability event, a true vacuum bubble could form in our Universe, endlessly expanding at light speed and annihilating everything in its volume. Thus, all we know may cease to exist in an instant.
rDod TIL in Titanic, Jack and Rose could both have survived if Rose took off her lifejacket and put it under the plank. It wasn’t a question of room, but buoyancy, and the lifejacket would have given the needed buoyancy for them both to survive. Some ingenuity would have saved them.
X0vK8 TIL In 1987, genetic fingerprinting (DNA profiling) was used in a US criminal court for the first time. The convicted criminal served twenty-two years in prison.
PXAG TIL There is a film called Waterloo(1970) that used 15,000 real Soviet soldiers as extras who spent months learning Napoleonic formations and how to use a musket. It is also very faithful to actual history.