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TIL after Judith Barsi's murder in 1988. The entire production crew for Don Bluth's "All Dogs Go to Heaven" had a difficult time working on the film. Animators that worked on scenes featuring Anne Marie actually broke down while lessening to Barsi's cassette recordings for the character.

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BgQYW TIL: In 2022, a pair of trousers belonging to a 17th century court dwarf was sold for £10k. It belonged to Sir Jeffrey Hudson or as he was known "Lord Minimus", a favored dwarf who was enslaved and presented to the queen in a pie. He was later banished for killing a man in a duel.
DMRP TIL that a patent on raising a sunken ship by pumping it full of buoyant balls was denied because of prior art in a 1949 Donald Duck comic
OolB4 TIL of the HMS Hercule. Originally a French 74-gun battleship. She was captured on her maiden voyage less than 24 hours at sea, spending the rest of her career with the British Navy.
MKXV TIL a zoo in Pakistan features a man impersonating a woman, portraying a creature that’s half fox and half human, that will answer any question for a dollar
j6pRN TIL a Liverpool fan committed suicide halfway through the Champions League final when Liverpool were trailing 0-3 just to comeback to 3-3 and beat AC Milan in penalties