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TIL Yoda was almost played by a monkey in mask!
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TIL about The Hole, New York City, a small and low lying neighbourhood that is very (very) run down and suffers from frequent flooding. The mafia used to dispose of bodies there.
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TIL The US Government spent 20 years and $20m on an experimental project to test and train telepaths for military use
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TIL in 1976, an AP reporter, concerned about violent content in the arcade game Death Race and the effect it might have on players, wrote a widely disseminated article about it. Many at the game's manufacturer Exidy credited this and the negative coverage that began afterwards for increased sales.
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TIL: Freekeh is the same grain as Durum Wheat—the kind used for pasta flour—but harvested when it's green before being processed
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TIL of Dr Randy Lovelace II, a Lt. Col. in the US Army Air Corps who worked on oxygen systems for high altitude jumps. In 1943 he volunteered to test his mask and jumped from a B17 at 40,000ft. The force of that deceleration knocked him out. tore his gloves off and frostbit his hand but he survived.