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TIL When executives from game developer Red Fly met with George Lucas they were instructed to never say “No” to him, told not to mention The Force Unleashed protagonist, Starkiller (George would only refer to him as “that guy”) and, most importantly, not to tell George how the Force works.

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oBVm8 TIL Tom and Jerry producer Fred Quimby, though not involved in the creative process, took all credit for the cartoon's success. Each time the cartoon won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, he accepted the awards without inviting the animators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, onstage.
R7189 TIL that high heels were originally used as military footwear for Persian soldiers on horseback, during the 16th century, and only later became popular among upper-class women.
eeAE TIL At the time of JFK’s death He was furious with the CIA about their funding the assassination of the South Vietnamese President and their plans to assassinate Fidel Castro, stating “I want to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”
16JQP TIL that Poinsettias come from Mexico. The Aztecs call them (Nahuatl language) cuetlaxochitl ̶ xochitl. The name Poinsettia, is in honour of Joel Roberts Poinsett, a US envoy in Mexico City who introduced the plant to the US and Europe.
a89eL TIL of the "Skin Hunters", a group of Polish ER workers that murdered elderly people, then sold information about the deceased patients to competing funeral homes, so they could contact the relatives before other funeral homes could.