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TIL no physical clone trooper armor was ever produced for Star Wars prequels. Every Clone trooper was CGI.

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78k4M TIL that in the record setting $2million dollar (before inflation) boxing match between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, they swapped referees to stop Al Capone from trying to rig the match.
aw57Z TIL cocktails originated from horses who had their tails docked. In the 1800's they docked tails of horses that were not thoroughbred - 'cocktailed horses'. It later referred to a vulgar, ill-bred person, and finally an 'acceptable diluted alcoholic drink, not purebred, and raised above its station'
01Mp TIL that in 2001, Mark Rich received a presidential pardon after refusing to pay $48 million in taxes. He had made substantial donations to the president’s wife’s political campaign. President Carter called it the most disgraceful pardon in US history.
LQvA9 TIL that the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Gavrilo Princip, who set off the chain of events in the July Crisis and eventually the outbreak of WWI, and some of his accomplices, is buried at a mausoleum called "Heroes Chapel".
9prp TIL the world’s oldest person attributed her ripe old age (122) to a diet of olive oil, port wine and 1kg of chocolate per week.