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TIL that Jabba the Hutt was depicted as a yellow walrus-looking man in Marvel Comics's adaptation of A New Hope. This was before Disney bought both properties.

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paGe TIL that humans are more closely related to tuna than tuna are to sharks. The last common ancestor of humans and tuna (and other ray-finned fish) lived 420 million years ago as opposed to 422 million years for tuna and cartilaginous fish like sharks.
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