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TIL The design of the Emperor’s home in “Mulan” takes its inspiration from China’s Forbidden City. The timeline of the movie is set during China’s Han Dynasty, from around 200 B.C.to 200 A.D.; while the Forbidden City was built about 1,200 years later

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