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TIL that Yoda’s appearance was based on his own creator, Stuart Freeborn, who modeled Yoda after his own likeness.

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rxgd TIL that Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, was at the forefront of the counterculture’s experimentation with psychedelics, which led to his 1954 work The Doors of Perception. Dying from cancer, he asked his wife on 22 November 1963 to inject him with 100 µg of LSD. He died later that day.
rN0y1 TIL the Soviet Union nearly launched a nuclear attack on China in 1969, only the intervention of the United States stopped them
R5aWw TIL that numerous writers who have worked on the comic book character John Constantine have, independently of one another, claimed to have been approached by him in real life, despite him being a fictional character
v1pML TIL Anthony Hopkins gave up on Hollywood and returned to London’s West End theatre before his casting in The Silence of The Lambs. For his role as Hannibal Lecter, he won the Oscar for Best Actor and AFI lists the character as the #1 film villain of all time
9wyZG TIL Sissy Spacek funded the early David Lynch