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

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Wke7X TIL harmless bacteria called Pseudomonas and Proteus can make your dogs paws smell like popcorn and corn chips.
J1mlk TIL N.Machiavelli's remains are lost, partially because an angry bull once chased a man who was trying to hide inside the Machiavelli family chapel/tomb, located inside the Santa Croce Basilica in Florence. The bull gored the man to death, ransacking the chapel in the process
wL9p7 TIL that 31% of India's population is vegetarian, by far the highest rate in the world. India has more vegetarians than the rest of the world put together.
nJ6o TIL that in Toy Biz v. United States, the manufacturing division for Marvel successfully argued in a court of law that mutants are “nonhuman creatures” to get around higher tariffs on toys depicting humans.
VMgkG TIL that the US Postal Service's unofficial motto ("Neither rain nor snow...") was first used in 440 BC by Herodotus, who was impressed by the Persian Empire's messenger system.