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TIL that James Earl Jones was a US Army Ranger

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JYNjv TIL when Adolf Eichmann was tried in Israel for his actions in the Holocaust, it was necessary to modify Israeli law to allow a team of foreign lawyers to defend him, since no Israeli lawyer would.
loNbA TIL that in 1984, the Back to the Future production designer actually built the Hill Valley set to appear several years older than 1955 because the belief at the time was that making a period film in 1984 that was “right on in ‘55” would look “a little too new.”
VMGvD TIL that director Fritz Lang had a meeting with Goebbels
bjA4 TIL that a man, who brutally murdered a Sunday school teacher, plead insanity and ended up only serving 8 ½ of his 30 year sentence for manslaughter. He now makes millions by running a mega church in TN, and even has lead the state assembly in prayer.
XxvQ TIL that 70 scientists who worked in the Manhattan project signed a petition pleading for president Truman to delay using atomic weapons on Japan before considering an observed demonstration of its power, but it never made it to Truman before the bombings