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TIL Yoda was almost played by a monkey in mask!

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AN91B TIL in 590 the city of Rome was experiencing such a severe food shortage and refugee crisis, that Pope Gregory had the church operate as a relief organization. This included having goods from church-owned farmland being given away as alms and Gregory himself cooking meals to give to the needy.
wo0OJ TIL of an experiment, in which white test subjects participated in the psychological ‘rubber hand illusion’ experiment but were given black arms instead of white ones. Doing this measurably reduced their implicit racial bias.
b6Zp TIL that after Star Trek was canceled, Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhara) volunteered for a special recruiting project at NASA where she recruited America’s first and second female, as well as black male, astronauts.
loXAr TIL in Pittsburgh in 1905, America’s first motion picture theater opened. It was named the Nickelodeon. The name was created by combining the cost of admission, a nickel, with ‘odean’ which is the Ancient Greek word for theater.
GAMn5 TIL Jackie Chiles is a fictional character, not a guest star.