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TIL that the interior design magazine Homes & Gardens did a piece complementing Adolf Hitler’s chalet.

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v1mbD TIL C-3PO's actor, Anthony Daniels, flubbed most of his lines on the first day of shooting STAR WARS. After repeatedly messing up, George Lucas came up to Daniels and said, "You can say anything you like. We can fix it later." Daniels then proceeded to speak his next lines in gibberish

4XwrR TIL The great conjunction is the time where Jupiter and Saturn meet. It coincides with winter solstice this year.

MeaaK TIL that the UK has the longest country name in the world. The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland being the official name.

6EeZ7 TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien. once received a goblet from a fan inscribed with "One Ring to Rule Them All..." inscribed on the rim in black speech. Tolkien never drank out of it, since it was written in an accursed language, and instead used it as an ashtray.

awM89 TIL in 1942 a forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.