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TIL Darth Vader lost an arm/hand 7 times in total

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PY1DO TIL if you threw a stone overboard above the Mariana Tench (6.8 mi deep) it would take an hour for it to hit the ocean floor.
e0Ga6 TIL Grant & Lee met again in 1869, 4 years after the American Civil War at the White House when Grant was President of the U.S. and Lee president of Washington University. Grant cracked a joke at Lee about railroads but Lee refused to smile. Their meeting was brief, lasting 15 minutes.
vEaD TIL that even through African-americans are only 13.6% of the population on USA, they account for 39.4% of the prisons, 52.5% of homicides and 35% of youth crimes.
LNDP TIL that half of all human deaths from the beginning of time can be attributed to malaria
K9ra TIL the girl from the famous 1981 Lego ad is now a 37 yo physician who owns 2 medical centers in Seattle, inspired by Lego (the gender-free Lego, not the ‘Friends’ line)