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TIL Estonia is considered the first digital nation

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aQaM TIL when JJ Abrams chose to have John Williams score The Force Awakens, he gave his frequent composer/collaborator Michael Giacchino a role as stormtrooper FN-3181 in the raid on Jakku as an apology.
5Yv5r TIL that the first new US Quarter of 2020 features a bat on the back
grrxy TIL that Isaac Newton was a member of the British parliament for one year. He spoke only once, and that was to tell someone to please close the window .
QLe6 TIL Most tropical fruits, avocado, papaya, durian, were eaten by animals that no longer exist and should, evolutionarily, also be extinct
GYW7Q TIL Two weeks before the Castle Gate Mine disaster that killed 171 men, the Utah Fuel Company laid off many of the miners without dependents during a shortage of coal sales. As a result, 114 of the men killed in the disaster were married men and left behind 415 widows and fatherless children