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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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j6E6E TIL that Rwandan cricketer Eric Dusingizimana created a Guinness World Record by batting for 51 hours continously (inclusive of food break) at an indoor cricket nets in Rwanda in order to raise funds to build an international cricket ground in Rwanda
OjB4 TIL a girl, kidnapped 2 days after her birth, was reunited with her family when classmates recognized similarities between her and her younger sister.
6jpw TIL In 1939, the famous and notorious gangster, Al Capone donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to the former Union Memorial Hospital in return for the excellent treatment and care he was offered and one of the trees still remains and blossoms outside the East 33rd Street entrance each spring.
Oodg6 TIL That there was a Lego MMO that was cancelled because inappropriate players kept creating penis' and despite the team's best efforts, their software was unable to keep up with the detection of them.
8kjL TIL that the chanting in Star Wars’ iconic song “Duel of the Fates” is not a gibberish alien language, but a Sanskrit translation of a medieval Welsh poem. Other chants in the Star Wars series make use of Sanskrit as well.