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TIL whilst Harrison Ford was fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola a studio executive asked the handyman to take a break and read lines with actresses who were testing for a new film. The film was Star Wars.

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9wb9r TIL Loving County, Texas, is named after rancher Oliver Loving. While dying in New Mexico in 1867 from gangrene caused by Comanche arrows, Loving convinced his friend to temporarily bury his body for six months, then exhume it and haul it by wagon 500 miles back to Texas for a proper burial.
jN7Qp TIL that Marion Stokes built an archive of network, local, and cable news, in her home, one tape at a time, recording every major (and trivial) news event until the day she died in 2012 at the age of 83 of lung disease.
VBLo0 TIL that if chess wasn't separated into men's and women's rankings the world's #1 rated female player wouldn't even rank in the top 100 players worldwide.
WkQa4 TIL that the Count in Sesame Street does not count all the time to teach children numbers! In folklore, vampires had arithmomania, or an obsession with numbers. This derives from the old superstition that throwing poppy seeds on the ground stopped vampires because they had to count them all first.
vPla8 TIL that a cartel prevented car commercials on British TV in the 1960s. Ford, Vauxhall (GM), Chrysler, and Land Rover secretly agreed to not broadcast automobile advertisements. Datsun arrived from Japan in the 1970s and began running ads on television, breaking the cartel.