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TIL despite political rhetoric, immigration from Mexico into the U.S. is at it’s lowest level in over two decades

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Rx51 TIL that as production for American Beauty began, DreamWorks approached twenty established directors, including several A-listers, all who turned down the project before they agreed to let Sam Mendes, a theater director, do it. It won Best Picture and Mendes won Best Director at the 2000 Oscars.
mxVeo TIL in 1976, a woman sued Disney for $150,000 because she claimed that one of the Three Little Pigs grabbed and fondled her. Allegedly she gained 50 pounds due to the incident, but dropped charges after Disney's lawyers presented her with a photo of the costume, which had only inoperable stub arms.
aJQo TIL that Wayne Gretzky was so well-respected in the NHL that some players would verbally warn him before checking him
M7D8a TIL, Rosa Luxemburg said her famous quote "remember, those who do not move, do not notice their chains" shortly before shot and killed by a German Nationalist. The man who planned the killing was Waldemar Pabst a fanatical nationalist officer whose paramilitaries became the rank and file for Nazism.
mxZPv TIL there's a giant frieze decorating the US Supreme Court which depicts the "18 Greatest Lawgivers in History," and it includes a depiction of the Prophet Muhammed.