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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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p84lA TIL that the Finnish Air Force had used the swastika as an insignia since 1918, before the Nazi's existed, they were forced to change it in 1944 but still use it today in parades.
Ljpv TIL that musician Moby’s real name is Richard. He calls himself ‘Moby’ after Moby Dick, which was written by his great-great-great-great uncle.
bev9 TIL Nicholas Cage had a rare $1 million comic book stolen from him, ten years later it was found in a locker on the TV show storage wars and returned to him.
OGBy7 TIL Scientists have discovered the phenomenon of sound on the surface of the sun. Bubbles, the size of Texas cover the sun’s surface. The rise and fall movement of granules produces the sound waves, which cause the sun to sound like a drum every five minutes.
wLPMW TIL Sputnik, the famed Soviet satellite that launched in 1958, wasn’t the first spaceflight. Instead, the Nazi's launched a V-2 rocket to space in 1942, and the first image of Earth taken from space came from a U.S. launched V-2 rocket in 1947.