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Today I learned what it actually means to “Pull out all the stops”

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Qkvd TIL: That in 1955, Quaker Oats Company gave away legal deeds to tiny parcels of land in Alaska in boxes of cereals
rY6d TIL George Lucas considered casting the principal characters of Star Wars as dwarfs. (Xpost r/Moviesinthemaking)
4kbR5 TIL that California Community Colleges is the largest university system in the United States with 1.8 million students. But this is still less than one third of the largest in the world - Indira Gandhi National Open University in India, with 7.1 million.
wZ8W TIL the original screenplay for Spielberg’s Lincoln biopic was 500 pages long. Rather than cut down the whole thing, he took the 160-page section about the 13th Amendment and made the film about that instead
168MO TIL about Dafen oil painting village, a suburb in Shenzhen, China, nicknamed the capital of mass art knock-offs, being a zone with many workshops dedicated to reproduce famous paintings of west and east, specifically, oil paintings but they made personal works for people too.