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TIL: George Lucas wants to build affordable housing on his land because ‘we’ve got enough millionaires’

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yVOaX TIL of there existed a government Music Bureau in Dynastic China aka the Ministry of Music which wasnt a music academy like today, it collected poems & musical scores & choreography to inform the emperor of the thoughts, feelings, and conditions of the various people in different parts of the empire
gbLb TIL that Kim Jong Il wanted to create North Korean version of Hollywood and KIDNAPPED South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and his wife in 1978 and forced them to make seven movies for the regime. The couple escaped in Vienna during a film festival.
voeB TIL Vatican City has the lowest age of consent (12) in Europe.
x6ERB TIL the mayflower ship is believed to have been scrapped for timber and assembled into a barn in Buckinghamshire, England
8aj5V TIL 1963 film Charade was accidentally released into the public domain when the filmmakers neglected to add copyright text/symbol when published