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TIL The Star Wars prequels used computer animation to create legions of Clone Troopers

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rMA4 TIL After a doctor named Richard Barista was slapped with divorce papers from his wife, he sued her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he donated and insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife’s behaviour
QNZda TIL the kiwifruit is native to and originally from China
k0B1 TIL that after the fall of Singapore in WWII the Japanese executed men with tattoos, on the basis that they were probably criminals
yVdV TIL that in May of 2011, the Ku Klux Klan released statements attempting to distance themselves from the Westboro Babtist Church. Their leader said, “It’s the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech.”
YLJB TIL in the movie Lion King, it took approximately three years to animate the two-and-a-half-minute wildebeest stampede scene.