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YpLnW TIL that the highest-grossing stop motion animated film is Chicken Run (2000), beating out Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas.
N7078 TIL the CIA once "kidnapped" a Soviet spacecraft overnight, took it apart, studied it, reassembled it, & sent it back without the Soviets realizing.
Edg7 TIL That in 2006 one of Saddam Hussein’s Generals who defected wrote a book about the operation to move WMDs from Iraq to Syria before the US invasion.
wL6KJ TIL that Wyatt Earp, a deputy marshal in Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 who took part in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral became a consultant for several cowboy movies and died in Los Angeles in 1926.
p8W7G TIL of the "Returning Soldier Effect" where more male babies than female babies were born after both World Wars in almost all belligerent countries. Reason: unknown.