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TIL in 2012 Star Wars: A New Hope was translated into the Navajo language, becoming the first major motion picture to be dubbed in a Native American language.

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XEQXR TIL That despite the commonly held belief that the Earth's Moon's name is "Luna", this is in fact not true, the official name for Earth's Moon is just "Moon"
VMNW8 TIL that Peter Gabriel intended for the 1986 song "In Your Eyes" to be the last track on his album "So", but due to the prominent bass line and the limitations of vinyl records, it had to be placed earlier on the record. This was rectified on the CD release of the album.
jorE TIL Six years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, his mother, Alberta King, was assassinated while playing the organ at her church
oR0lW TIL that the same Rhode Island farmer brought a turkey to the White House every year for 40 years straight. His death in 1913 set off a free-for-all in which numerous farmers tried to be the one to supply the annual holiday turkeys to the president.
4kn5o TIL that when Gallup conducted a survey in 1944 asking Americans "What do you think we should do with Japan after the war?" 13% favored "Killing off" all the Japanese, 33% thought it should be split up or destroyed while the rest favored either supervision or rehabilitation.