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TIL that Celine Dion represented Switzerland in the 1988 Eurovision Contest and won, even through she was a French-Canadian.

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4X9rX TIL that there are active subglacial tidal lakes under the ice in Antarctica.
RvN4 TIL George Lucas pitched an ending to ROTJ where Luke helps Vader take off his helmet and then puts it on himself, saying “Now I am Vader. Now I will go and kill the [Rebel] fleet and I will rule the universe”. His co-writer, Lawrence Kasdan, liked the idea, but Lucas decided not to go that dark.
Z8ZJB TIL there is a Russian version of the Lord of the Rings based on the premise that the original LOTR is a "history written by the victors;" in reality Mordor was on the verge of an industrial revolution which was a threat to the war-mongering and imperialistic faction represented by Gandalf/the elves
Wkox9 TIL nearly half of the world’s adult population will weigh in above a healthy range by 2030
D64Y TIL that after Germany discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer, the Nazis initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement. Hitler himself called tobacco “the wrath of the Red Man against the White Man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.”