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TIL Robin Williams improvised 16 hours of material for the Genie. The Animators adjusted the animations to his voice-performance.

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wLOGE TIL the Manhattan Project which began in 1939 employed over 130,000 people & cost $2 billion USD — $22 billion adjusted for inflation
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