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TIL there is a man-made lake called "Ewok Lake" on the Skywalker Ranch owned by George Lucas

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arpJ TIL Argentina and Chile are the only two countries you can “Dig to China” from.
D1rdp TIL Mao Zedong's English interpreter Ji Chaozhu moved to New York in 1939 at age 9, to avoid the war and spent a year at Harvard before returning to China in 1950. He worshipped Mao and remember the Chairman as “serene,” “regal,” and “mentally far away, at peace.”
QJRwp TIL of the violent episode of the civil rights movement, the Orangeburg Massacre. On February 8, 1968, a civil rights protest at South Carolina State University turned deadly when 3 young men were killed, 28 people wounded, shot as they fled the assault by law enforcement.
b666Z TIL in Shakespeare's time, onstage special effects included using real animal blood, bones and intestines
4Xleb TIL that around 80% of money in the economy is just a bunch of zeros and ones (i.e digital)