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TIL - The stormtrooper, who was mindtricked by Rey, was Daniel Craig

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0wZw5 TIL During World War II, the U.S. government urged Americans to save excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives.
nP1Y TIL that physicists proved that shooting “granny style” is the absolute best technique to consistently score points on the line, but NBA players refuse to do it because it looks stupid.
1pY4 TIL The average male medieval peasant ate between 160% to 200% more calories than your average male now. Which kind of explains why it’s so hard to sustain 1500 calorie diets…
x6ow0 TIL that there is a temple in Taiwan that was built in honor of a Japanese pilot who steered his plane to crash where the temple now stands rather than into a populated area during World War II.
DQxjJ TIL that in the 2000 Paralympic games, Spain was stripped of its intellectually disabled basketball gold medal after it was revealed that only 2 of its 12 basketball players actually had an IQ below 75, the requirement to qualify. Intellectual disability would be abandoned until the 2012 Paralympics