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TIL "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" was the first all-digital live action feature. This means that no film was used in the creation of it until film copies had to be made for theaters.

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VBYVk TIL In 1952, during his stint in the Navy, Jimmy Carter was once lowered into a damaged nuclear reactor as part of the clean-up process. This resulted in him having measurable levels of radiation in his urine for about the next six months.
4Xbvg TIL a lost play by Alexandre Dumas was discovered in the French National Library archives in 2002
LW0v TIL crows are quite similar to humans and visit their aging parents many years after they have left the nest
9BB7 TIL that Kurt Vonnegut, one year before his death, said he would sue Pall Mall for false advertising. He had been smoking them since 12 or 14 years old and they had still not killed him, though they said they would on the packaging.
6ldJ TIL that the average American receives an estimated 41 pounds of junk mail a year, destroying about 400 sq feet of natural habitat per person. Only about 32% is recovered for recycling.