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TIL homosexuality has been legal in Turkey since 1858

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JKJQ TIL that a book claiming that sunscreen, not the sun, is the number one cause of skin cancer, and that AIDS is “one of the greatest hoaxes and deceptions ever perpetrated on the American public” was #1 on the New York Times best-seller list and sold 5 million copies in the U.S.
NXQ9e TIL the sodium vapor process (aka yellowscreen) was extensively used by Disney as an alternative to the better-known bluescreen, to composite actors and background footage with less side effects on human skin tones. It featured in Mary Poppins (1964), and Dick Tracy (1990) marked its last known use.
v6Ex TIL For Star Wars Episode I, sets were only built as tall as the actors’ heads. The rest of the sets were created using CGI. However, Liam Neeson’s height necessitated the rebuilding of the sets, which cost the production team an extra $150,000.
x69Xo TIL there are 16,000 acres of sand dunes in Alaska - Kobuk Valley National Park
wPVE TIL that a german author wrote a bestselling book about Hitler waking up in 2011 and trying to re-establish the third Reich