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TIL Yoda’s full name – never revealed in the films – is “Minch Yoda.” George Lucas deliberately decided to leave him with just one name to enhance the air of mystery and power around him.

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woAa7 TIL prior to the 1900s, cows were impregnated naturally in order to get milk
Lk7Qv TIL that Isaac Asimov's son David had one of the largest collections of child pornography ever uncovered on US soil
GAnQJ TIL there are over 3,000 slot machines on military bases overseas, mostly run by the army, and they make $100 million annually
graky TIL of St Clair’s Defeat of 1791, when British armed Native Americans inflicted one of the worst ever defeats on the US Military.
gMB9 TIL on August 25, 1914, in retaliation for Belgium’s guerrilla tactics in defending their country, German troops burned Leuven’s University Library, destroying hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable medieval-period books, manuscripts, and treasures.