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TIL Samuel L. Jackson requested to have a purple lightsaber in order to make his character stand out in the Star Wars films

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R51Pj TIL Pygmalion, a Greek myth about a sculptor who falls in love with his ivory statue, is the oldest known story of an inanimate object gaining sentience, predating Pinocchio by over 1,800 years."
graL4 TIL Boeing built an entire fake town on top of their Seattle area factory during WW2
X0Plr TIL after Gram Parsons, the primary singer songwriter for the Country Rock band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, died, his body stolen by his manager and his assistant. It was then burned at Joshua Tree. They only paid fines, and the money used to pay the fines was raised with a benefit concert.
9YPXG TIL that at the Hoover dam construction the first worker death was that of J. G. Tierney and the last death was that of his son Patrick Tierney which came 14 years after the death of his father
OonOL TIL that George Clooney made 14 of his closest friends instant millionaires by handing them each a suitcase with $1 million at a dinner party. He even paid their taxes for the year.