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TIL the voice of Maude Flanders requested a $4000 raise to cover increasing commute costs, but FOX only offered $150 instead. This dispute is what led to Maude being killed off

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9EBB TIL in 2009, a hard ground ball hit Adrián Beltré in the crotch which landed him on the 15-day disabled list. In his first game back from the DL, teammate Ken Griffey Jr. conspired with those responsible for the PA system to have Beltré’s at-bat intro music be the waltz from The Nutcracker Suite
yQNGX TIL that during World War II, Disney made animated films for every branch of the U.S. military and government. 90% of Disney employees were devoted to producing the animations. One film had Donald Duck in an nightmare were he worked in a Nazi artillery factory, and ate in very small rations.
d8BGE TIL of José Sanjurjo a prominent figure in the Spanish civil war, who died when the biplane he rode which was overburdened with his luggage crashed. Before flight the pilot warned Sanjurjo of the danger to which he replied with, "I need to wear proper clothes as the new caudillo of Spain."
b9ymj TIL that Italian is often the second language of most older native Italians, and while the locals are said to speak different, they actually predate modern Italian which became the national language in 1861. The “dialects” are often so different that locals can’t understand the other dialects
JX4 TIL no physical clone trooper costume was ever produced for the Star Wars prequels. Every single clone trooper is a computer generated image.