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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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5Y568 TIL the Ku Klux Klan has held demonstrations at Dolly Parton’s theme park because of her annual Gay Day
6gwY TIL that American Nazi sympathizers built Hitler a hidden, self-sustaining mansion in LA in 1933, and it’s still there.
8aKLX TIL The 2017 Gallup "State of the American Workplace" report, reveals that only 33% of employees are engaged in their work. 16% say they are actively disengaged. The rest, that is 51%, are not engaged and are just there.
0wVDL TIL that the tail of a stegosaurus is called the "thagomizer". The term was coined in 1982 in a cartoon made by Gary Larson. This bone did not have a scientific name yet, and thagomizer was eventually adopted as the scientific name.
kOX7W TIL that there was a failed Yorkshire uprising in 1820 that failed because the uprisers lost their nerve at the last second