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TIL Costa Rica has no army, it abolished it in 1949

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gV84 TIL that George Lucas was heavily influenced by Canadian avant-garde filmmakers and borrowed the idea for The Force from the film 21-87 by director Arthur Lipsett (and the # of Leia’s holding cell on the Death Star was…. 2187)
epY6 TIL That in addition to HTTP response codes 403: Forbidden, 404: Not found, etc. There also is Code 418: I’m a Teapot.
PQ8g TIL that NASA engineers once asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was enough for a 7 day mission
LM5Q TIL that Poliwag is the favorite Pokémon of Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon.
WaV4 TIL the Solar System could support 10 quadrillion human beings with the utilization of asteroid resources