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TIL that Terry McGovern (voice of Launchpad McQuack) is credited with naming the Wookiees from Star Wars

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VWP0 TIL that according to neuroscientist ‘Sam Harris’; humans are just robots without real freewill, and that our brain activity can been used to predict our decisions up to 10 seconds before we become consciously aware of it.
4XXYJ TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s
nWaJP TIL "Big Bug Man" is an unreleased animated film starring Marlon Brando and Brendan Fraser. It was Brando's last known project before his death in 2004.
D1NdP TIL that multiple skeletons were found in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's London home. The bones were discovered during a 1998 renovation of the house and were identified as being from nearly a dozen people, including six children.
00K5 TIL Guillermo Del Toro left a notebook containing 4 years’ worth of ideas for Pan’s Labyrinth in the back seat of a London cab. The cab driver used a scrap of stationery from Del Toro’s hotel he found in the book to return it. Del Toro gave him a $900 reward.