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TIL in case Star Wars was a failure, George Lucas commissioned a low-budget sequel called "Splinter of the Mind's Eye."

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awylA TIL at the time of his fatal heart attack rapper Big Pun weighed 698 lbs (317 kg). About 10 years earlier he weighed around 180 lbs (~80 kg).
QJemk TIL about Jagniwas, the amazing Lake Palace in Udaipur India. Built in 1743 and now a 5-star hotel
4r7g TIL That Ikea has developed a new “flat-pack” refugee shelter. It has solar panels designed to power a lamp and a phone charger, and lasts three years compared to the current shelter which lasts six months.
E1pJP TIL that in the 1960s, over 320,000 baby teeth were sent by parents to be tested for radioactive isotope strontium-90. They showed that children born after large scale nuclear testing had begun showed levels 50 times higher than children born before large scale testing.
xV0wD TIL: The average person swallows plastic equivalent to a credit card every week, due to micro plastics in our everyday lives