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TIL Weird Al Yankovic was the valedictorian of his high school

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X8DE TIL that in Star Wars legends, Jar Jar Binks was given a father, named George R Binks, who was so ashamed of his son that he attempted suicide. In order to talk him down, his wife told him to think of his son. He then pulled the trigger
pdae TIL there is a group of women who were the last to be born into China’s foot binding culture, residing in a small village in the Yunnan province. In their 80’s and 90’s, they tell their stories so we will not forget them.
7rwAO TIL “Tri” in Triscuit isn’t about three but rather elecTRIcity + bisCUIT since cooking with electricity was new technology.
BEax TIL the album Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd was in the Billboard Top 200 for a record of 736 weeks since its debut in 1973.
W74Eo TIL 36 seconds after takeoff, Apollo 12 was struck by lightning and the computers, particularly those dealing with telemetry, immediately became garbled. The mission was almost aborted before engineer John Aaron recommended an obscure switch which reset data, saving the mission