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TIL that the word “Ewok” was never mentioned in Star Wars.

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PG4O TIL Henry Johnson, the “Black Death”, was awarded the Purple Heart in 1996, Distinguished Service Cross in 2002, and the Medal of Honor in 2015. He died penniless in 1929 after his wife and children left because he couldn’t work due to his injuries.
9AZG TIL Humans almost went extinct about 70,000 years ago.
e0NPg TIL about “whataboutisms” - a logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument.
awvMZ TIL this remembrance month that 5,008,810 Muslim soldiers fought for the Allies during WWII, of whom 1,929,767 were directly Killed In Action fighting against the Nazis
1yKP TIL in 2013 Charlie Sheen appeared on an episode of Conan and said that he had laughed so hard while watching Chappelle Show, he experienced a ruptured hernia and was rushed to the hospital. The producers of Two and a Half Men assumed his hospitalization was a drug overdose and fired him