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TIL George Lucas's original name for Yoda was... Buffy

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7nb TIL: The fiddle song featured in Ken Burns’ The Civil War was not a Civil War song at all, but “a Scottish lament written by a Jewish guy in the Bronx” in the eighties.
VBgk TIL that on this day in 2000, the US national debt was dropping.
Y71B7 TIL that during WW2, the US gov't banned sliced bread (so that the hardened steel normally used in bread slicing machines could be put towards the war effort). After a huge public outcry, the ban was lifted after only seven weeks.
XEnej TIL Before he became a children's entertainer, Blippi filmed himself pooping on people as part of his act.
BOLx TIL that thanks to his Internet popularity, “success kid” made enough money to fund his dad’s kidney transplant.