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TIL in the original Star Wars movie, Darth Vader was only on screen for a total of 8 minutes and 6 seconds.

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P0nO TIL that Sid Vicious was such a poor bassist that when performing with the Sex Pistols his band mates would often unplug his amplifier mid-performance.
EaKP TIL a Chinese business man bought a non-functional aircraft carrier from Ukraine, allegedly to use it as a floating hotel/casino. It took more than 4 years to tow it to China. Later the Chinese government bought and modernised the carrier, making it its only aircraft carrier its navy owns today.
jNgEN TIL the widely taught tongue map that different parts of the tongue are responsible for different tastes is a myth.
woGeW TIL that in the 60's they had pacemakers with RTG's in them, a type of nuclear battery that uses an array of thermocouples to convert the heat released by the decay of a suitable radioactive material into electricity.
DN7D TIL that at an Amazon.com warehouse in Pennsylvania, workers were required to work – in some cases walking 15 miles a day – in 100+ degree heat. When the news broke, Amazon’s initial response was to keep an ambulance outside the warehouse.