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TIL pretty much the entire optical industry is controlled by a single Italian company

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EZVP TIL that during the filming of Star Wars Episode IV, studio executives were apparently unhappy that Chewbacca’s character had no clothes and wanted to have the costume redesigned to have shorts.
m1Evx TIL of the "Freezer Bowl", the coldest NFL game in history between the Cincinnati Bengals and the visiting San Diego Chargers. The wind was nearly 30 MPH, the official temperature was -9°F, and the wind chill factor put the temp at -59°. The Bengals won and went to the Super Bowl
8awjX TIL in the 1910s, there was a US baseball team made up of death-row prisoners, whose executions were delayed so long as they kept winning.
P6GO TIL that the boy who played Charlie in the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film never acted in another film and is currently a practicing veterinarian in the Adirondacks.
5Vn0B TIL that since 2011 the first three digits of Social Security Numbers no longer are assigned by geographic location.