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TIL that Princess Leia never had a lightsaber in Star Wars (even though she was Force sensitive) and when asked on Stephen Colbert’s show about this she said: “You know, it's that whole women - it's a bad thing for women. Even in space, there's a double standard. Even with the Force.”

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5YkQn TIL in the 1950s Rebecca Webb Carranza owned a tortilla factory that sometimes made misshappen tortillas. Instead of throwing them out she cut them into triangles, fried them, and sold bags of them in the Mexican Deli. She's credited for introducing tortilla chip into modern food culture.
ndV7 TIL that there are contact lenses worn during sleep that reshape your cornea. When you wake up, your vision is as good as it would be if you were wearing glasses or contacts during the day. They’re also used to treat myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism.
ev4J TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, during the detonation of the trinty bomb (the first atom bomb), recalled that besides initial laughs and cries, most scientists were silent. Oppenheimer later recalled thinking of a line from Hindu scripture that read, “Now I become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
rRjLM TIL that the Aunt Bessie's factory in Hull produces 900 million Yorkshire puddings every year; in the run-up to Christmas alone, 110 million Yorkshire puddings are produced
oRBDR TIL Hitler's bunker is now covered by a parking lot and a few unassuming buildings, a strategy to ensure that the surroundings remain anonymous and unemarkable.