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TIL Some Star Wars fans believe Chewbacca and R2-D2 Are Secret Rebel Agents

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e0Bp6 TIL the Looney Toons Golden Collection DVDs have a disclaimer at the beginning given by Whoopi Goldberg explaining that the cartoons are a product of their time and contain ethnic stereotypes that have not been censored because editing them would be the same as denying the stereotypes ever existed
0dwJp TIL Baseballs used to be made by the pitcher themselves. Cores of the balls were made from anything ranging from old melted shoes to fish eyes.
OdNX TIL that the Old Testament, New Testament, and the Qur'an all have passages that denounce and in many cases downright prohibit collecting interest on loans
gx54 TIL that IBM has stated that the Scroll Lock key on your keyboard does nothing. When PC Magazine asked an executive of keyboard manufacturer Key Tronic about the key’s purpose he replied, “I don’t know, but we put it on ours too.”
OGZwX TIL: that the Atomium landmark in Belgium is modeled after an iron crystal magnified 165 million times