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TIL Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith has the most visual effects for any film, ever

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oB9yo TIL that in the Godfather Vito Corlene's cat was actually a stray cat that they found in the middle of the Paramount lot.
v1a17 TIL when Stanley Kubrick made "The Killing", a 1956 noir heist film, the studio demanded he add in a narrator to explain the nonlinear order of events so the audience wouldn't get confused. Kubrick eventually added the narration which gave the audience inaccurate times to confuse them further.
5pRk TIL Federico da Montefeltro, fifteenth-century duke of Urbino, after having lost one eye in a tournament had his surgeons successfully amputate the bridge of his nose to widen his field of view.
QJm7M TIL Dr. James Simpson, who first showed the effects of chloroform on humans in 1847. He sat with his assistants nightly trying chemicals. After they collapsed and came to after using chloroform, he recognized its anesthetic potential. He nicknamed the first baby delivered by chloroform "Anesthesia."
4Xo1b TIL when Martin Short appeared on the Today Show in 2012, one of the co-host commented how Short has one of the greatest Hollywood marriage and asked "why they were still madly in love?" Short replied because he's "cute"... his wife died of cancer in 2010.