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TIL director Robert Rodriguez got the inspiration for making the movie Spy Kids 4D from watching Jessica Alba's baby do a poo.

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WkaR4 TIL that in 1935, a Congressman proposed an amendment that any declaration of war would need a national referendum. He said that "If the United States had such an anti-war provision in its Constitution, other countries would follow our example, and I believe wars would be brought to an end"
65Ql TIL there’s been a treaty that bans controlling the weather as a weapon of war since 1978.
l7MRK TIL that Claudia Christian (Babylon 5) was one of the first TV actors in the industry to be shown how computers were being used to generate visual FX in that new field of the 1990's.
l7Oaa TIL in 1936, 20 year old Orson Welles directed an entirely African American cast of Macbeth set in the Caribbean in which Haitian vodou replaced Scottish witchcraft. The play was produced by the Federal Theatre Project which was responsible for creating jobs in the arts during the Depression.
vRyB TIL rats are capable of laughing.