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TIL “Attack of the Clones” (2002) was the first Hollywood movie shot entirely on HD digital cameras

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loXrK TIL that Felix Salten, author of one of the most notorious and depraved works of erotic fiction in world literature ("Josefine Mutzenbacher") also wrote the book on which Disney's "Bambi" is based.
R5QvQ TIL Mongolia used dollars as their currency in the early 1920s, but they were worthless according to European travelers
kOyZ4 TIL the film The Wolf of Wall Street was funded with money stolen through fraud
VBJvD TIL After leaving NASA in 1971, Neil Armstrong named his farm for a valley described in "The Lord of the Rings" and chose an email address with a Tolkien theme. There is a theory he based his One Small Step quote on "The Hobbit"
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