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TIL Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Hamilton, wrote an entire song in the Huttese language from Star Wars. It was the song that played in Maz’s Kantina in The Force Awakens.

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XEn4k TIL that Edison used Bamboo filaments supplied by his assistant from Kyoto until he developed Tungsten filament and the shrine hosts a 'light festival' complete with lit bamboo lanterns and the American anthem to honor this exchange
7rOwr TIL that the first tiger shark to hatch inside it's mother's uterus eats all the other embryos, and at least one scientist has been bitten by unwisely sticking a finger in a pregnant tiger shark's uterus
jxyE TIL Dana Carvey had heart-bypass that was done incorrectly. He was awarded $7.5 million for medical malpractice which he donated entirely to charity.
R7Yxj TIL in 2018, a record 151,964 Americans died due to alcohol, drugs or suicide. These so-called "deaths of despair" disproportionately affect people who don't have access to mental health services.
e0K8D TIL of Ros Sereysothea, A Cambodian rock singer given the title "The Queen of the Golden Voice" who vanished completely under the reign of the Khmer Rouge