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TIL that Grant Imahara from Mythbustes was a controller for the R2D2 model for “The Phantom Menace”

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g4n8 TIL that chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer literally spat on a US order warning him that a rematch in Eastern Europe would violate US sanctions. He played the match and then spent the next 16 years as a fugitive outside the US until his death.
epDwn TIL the Hindi/Sanskrit word that Ancient Indians (~5000 BCE) used and still use for "Study of Geography" and it is "Bhoo-Gol", literally "Bhoo" = Land or Earth and "Gol/Gola" = Round
X0m4E TIL that JFK didn’t invite Sammy Davis Jr. to his 1961 inauguration as Sammy had married a white woman, and JFK was worried that the presence of an interracial couple would upset Southerners. Dean Martin, who was angered by this news, refused to attend the inauguration in solidarity with Sammy.
JYE1j TIL Sicilian and Italian are two different languages, with Sicilian preceding the Italian language
yxVV TIL that when Patrick Stewart first saw an X-Men comic he asked, “What am I doing on the front of a comic book?”