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TIL There is no paper in the ‘Star Wars’ universe, and paper never appears in the films

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oBGo8 TIL the character Totoro from Hayao Miyasaki's 1988 film My Neighbour Totoro, makes a cameo appearance in the 2010 Pixar film Toy Story 3. Daisuke Tsutsumi, the art director of Toy Story 3, is married to Miyazaki's niece, who was the original inspiration for the character Mei in My Neighbour Totoro.
9Y64Q TIL long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by giant mushrooms
AD9Jx TIL That malaria has killed more than half of all humans since they were created.
6ELRZ TIL of The Anonymous Project, a collection of castoff photos, a lot of them Kodachrome, from years gone by.
N7KdM TIL the great smog of London in 1952 was so bad that pedestrians couldn't even see their feet. Some of the 4,000 who died in the 5 days it lasted didn't suffer lung problems – they fell into the Thames and drowned because they could not see the river