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TIL: Saudi Arabia produced a school textbook in which Yoda was superimposed on a photo of the late King Faisal.

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6vJ7 TIL that it would take 76 8-hour work days for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year
P1LEE TIL- The Apollo 11 astronaut left Lunar Laser Retro-Reflectors on the moon and NASA has been conducting experiments with them for over 50 years thus proving the moon landings happened.
VMbjZ TIL Christopher Havens, a convicted murderer solves ancient math problem in prison. Taught himself higher math and solved the age-old math puzzle of number theory involving so-called continued fractions over which Euclid has already racked his brains. He then published the journal in January 2020.
nKPb TIL that in Russia, there is a group of boys who attempt to force traffic regulations in Russia, which can vary from blocking cars driving on sidewalks, to placing stickers on cars who park in illegal spot to. The group is called Stop a Douchebag
YvbW TIL that the largest known star, UY Scuti, is so large that if it was placed at the center of our Solar System, its radius would engulf the orbit of Jupiter - and maybe even Saturn