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TIL One Black Musician Is Viewed “as being responsible for dismantling the entire KKK in Maryland” By Befriending Them

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yM0J TIL Peter Cushing, the actor for Grand Moff Tarkin, found his costume’s boots to be very uncomfortable. Any time his feet were not visible in the shot he would be wearing comfy slippers. Grand Moff Tarkin destroyed Alderaan wearing comfy slippers.
Wkdno TIL in 1978 a plane suddenly disappeared flying over Bass strait, the last communication of pilot was, ' huge strange aircraft is hovering of top of plane'. after a pause, 'It is not an aircraft'. Disappearance still remains mystery
91ar TIL Goosebumps author RL Stine never include things like divorce, drug use, abuse in his books because he didn’t want to terrify kids. He wanted kids to be sure that his stories were fantasies that could never actually happen
MDB7 TIL sloths used to exist which were the size of elephants. The Megatherium weighed 4 tonnes, could use its tail and hind legs like a tripod, and was hunted to extinction by early man only 10,000 years ago.
Od96 TIL attacking a parachuter bailing from a distressed aircraft is a war crime