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TIL Harrison Ford (the actor who plays Han Solo) is two years older than Ian Mcdiarmid (the actor who plays the Emperor)

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rRpVy TIL that a man was milled by a mute swan. After getting too close to a nest, the male swan knocked the man out of a kayak and actively blocked the man from swimming to shore.
LXwv TIL Jason Alexander designed his hairpiece to make it look like he was balding
wR68 TIL The airplane used for the disaster movie Airport crashed during a real flight afterward, killing 36.
M5yW TIL during the “Tuskegee syphilis experiment” the US Public Health Services studied the natural progression of untreated syphilis despite the “cure” being widely available
WkVnL TIL the word mile originates from the measurement of one thousand paces of a Roman soldier (mille passus)