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TIL Saudia Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter

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enL5 TIL modern archaeologists have been able to trace almost every move of the Lewis and Clark expedition because they used mercury ladden laxatives which traces can still be found in the soil
b9nKj TIL "You are a thief and a murderer: you have killed a baboon and stolen his face" was a common insult in the 18th century
0wQNp TIL the fruit fly species drosophila bifurca’s sperm is 5.8cm long, over twenty times its body length
woKX8 TIL that Frank Zappa was mobbed by TV reporters at Prague airport, much to the shock of Shirley Temple who was the then-ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
b6vNa TIL Over 40 buildings in New York City are so large that they have their own zip codes.