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TIL that, as part of a poacher’s jail sentence, the Judge ordered him to watch the Disney animated film Bambi once a month until his release.

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gYD4 TIL George Lucas built his $4 Billion ‘Star Wars’ empire by accepting a salary of $125K instead of $1M in the first Star Wars movie, but keeping the right to direct sequels and licensing (sell toys, posters, T-shirt, etc.)
m1kVE TIL that American chemist Gilbert Lewis was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry every year from 1922 until 1946 but never won it. His death in 1946 may have been a suicide.
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