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TIL it is illegal to grow your own cotton in 17 states without a permit

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EKmX TIL Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of the Half-Life computer game series, and has considered possibilities of directing a movie adaptation.
pYveZ TIL: In the USA, the shade and wind-proofing that trees deliver reduce annual heating and cooling costs by $2.1 billion.
D1R1g TIL October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys, the original name of the source memoir.
R70L9 TIL David Prowse, who played (but did not voice) Darth Vader in "Return of the Jedi", has never been paid any residuals from the film, because LucasFilm claims the film never made a profit.
kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.