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TIL the director for the music video for the K-Pop song "Sonata of Temptation" by Ivy was sued by Square Enix on accounts of plagiarism for recreating scenes from the 2005 film Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children without legal permission.

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RLy9 TIL many of the scenes from the film “1984” were shot on the actual days noted in Winston Smith’s diary. The entry for April 4, 1984, was actually filmed on April 4, 1984, and was the very first scene to be shot.
W7XaX TIL that in 1940 Hans and Margret Rey, a Jewish couple, fled Paris on bicycles they built themselves as the Nazis invaded. They carried with them the manuscript for their children’s book, “Curious George”.
klrg TIL that the Louvre museum in Paris generated $2.5 billion dollars in sales last year.
P1YgJ TIL that the Aboriginal people of Australia have occupied the land for more than 60,000 years.
R5961 TIL that when composer Joseph Haydn died his head was stolen for study by people practicing phrenology-the pseudoscientific study of how the shape of ones skull reflects their intellect. His skull was eventual returned and interred with the rest of his body in 1954, 145 years later.