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TIL 50 new shades of colours were created for the anime film Akira. This is due to the fact most of the movie takes place at night, which was a setting animators commonly avoided due to increased color requirements. In total there are 327 shades in the movie

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kOpGE TIL of a cemetery island just off the coast of Cabuya, Costa Rica. During low tide, a land bridge will surface, connecting the island to the mainland, which allows people to travel on foot and even hold funeral processions.
Llyv TIL Karl Urban’s character in the 2012 film “Dredd” was legally required to never remove his helmet and to keep his face obscured. Urban had no issue with this as “if you’d grown up reading Dredd, you’d never really consider taking the helmet off.”
JY988 TIL Notorious Hellraiser and actor Oliver Reed once “kidnapped” the milkman while delivering to his home in Surrey, and took him on a two-day drinking binge.
neNwb TIL the Whopper Jr was created by accident in 1963 by the manager of the first Burger King restaurant in Puerto Rico. The molds for the standard Whopper buns didn't arrive so he used a much smaller local bun. The result was such a success that BK adopted it worldwide and called it the Whopper Jr.
KYBdB TIL that in 1538, King Henry VIII of England demolished the entire village of Cuddington in Surrey to build Nonsuch Palace. The palace had yet to be completed when Henry VIII died in 1547, and was sold to and finished by Henry FitzAlan, 19th Earl of Arundel in 1556.