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TIL Ben Ferencz is the last living prosecutor from the Nuremburg Trials and is 102 years old

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Z89QY TIL A Conan The Barbarian sequel starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as an older, grizzled Conan almost happened. Entitled "Legend of Conan" it was inspired by the tone of Clint Eastwoods "Unforgiven" but was cancelled in 2017.
d817j TIL that an astonishing amount of what we put in our recycling bins doesn't actually get recycled. Plastic being the worst offender with around 91% not actually being recycled.
yMBJ TIL When executives from game developer Red Fly met with George Lucas they were instructed to never say “No” to him, told not to mention The Force Unleashed protagonist, Starkiller (George would only refer to him as “that guy”) and, most importantly, not to tell George how the Force works.
8eJl8 TIL Johnny Cash’s famous song “A Boy Named Sue” was written by children’s author Shel Silverstein
p8a7b TIL while waiting for his audition for 'The Office', John Krasinski was telling someone about how he was worried the producers were going to screw the show up because of how great the British version is. The person he was talking to was Greg Daniels, the shows executive producer.