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[star wars] did palpatine knew about Anakin before he was brought to corruscant?
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He was not.

Even in Legends, at best he was aware that there was "something" out there that was created as a backlash of the experiments he and Plagueis were getting up to, but it wasn't until Anakin showed up literally on his doorstep that he put two and two together.