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TIL Han Solo was frozen at the end of ESB because they didn’t know if Harrison Ford would agree to do the next movie.

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9wQRG TIL the soft pillows we use today were historically made of stone. Pillows were first used around 7,000 BC in Mesopotamia. These early pillows were made of stone and carved into the shape of a cradle; they were not intended to be comfortable.
ADPRg TIL about the Public Universal Friend, an 18th century Quaker preacher who claimed to have died and been reborn as a genderless, nameless individual and went on to found a religious movement known as the Society of Universal Friends.
94ND TIL deep in Africa there are accounts of people seeing dinosaur-like creatures that resembles a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus. The locals call it Mokèlé-mbèmbé and there have been several documented expeditions to find it from as early as 1776 to as late as 2012.
9BjM TIL that in 1994 a 17 yr old boy used radioactive material from homemade items like clocks to build himself a nuclear reactor. Although it never came anywhere near reaching critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radiation, likely over 1,000 times normal background radiation.
gr89W Today I learned that there is enough evidence to suggest that orca are actually an occasional predator of moose, due to the fact that moose can dive up to 20' for vegetation underwater in killer whale territories.