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TIL that during filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back the actor playing Darth Vader was instructed to say “Obi-Wan killed your father” instead of “I am your father” in order to hide the secret twist from even the actors until the final movie

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x6A5D TIL that Nobuo Oda is the longest serving death row inmate in Japan. He was sentenced to death in 1968 for killing a man during a robbery in 1966. While Oda has admitted to robbery, he has denied starting the fire with a stove. He is currently a prisoner in the Fukuoka Detention House.
ANKDl TIl that it is impossible to actually sink in quicksand.
R7054 TIL about Witold Pilecki, a polish intelligence agent in WW2 who volunteered to join a resistance operation to infiltrate a Nazi Death Camp and gather intelligence about the Nazi's crimes and inform Western Allies. Then, after two and a half years, he chose to escape. The camp was Auschwitz.
JYmQ TIL that MIT students have a history of some of the most awesome pranks that have ever been pulled, including hacking the lighting system of one building on campus and rigging it so that they could play Tetris using the windows as tiles.
oRllY TIL Walking was a competitive sport in the 19th century.