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TIL Star Wars was originally about Mace Windu.

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4XJmw TIL the University of Tennessee's Forensic Anthropology Center "Body Farm" has origins in Kansas cattle rusting in 1969.
R85Q TIL That Russia Has Approved Construction of an Estimated $66B Tunnel Across the Bering Strait Starting Sometime After 2030, Making a Railway from New York to London a Possibility During This Century
bZdZ TIL a man broke out of prison by mailing himself in a crate and evaded capture hours later by convincing the police he was a jogger. He then traveled from one side of Canada and the States to the other before being caught.
PYLaL TIL in 2004, Sylvia Browne, a psychic, told the mother of a Cleveland kidnapping victim (Amanda Berry) on the Montel Williams Show her daughter was dead. In 2006, the mother passed away without ever knowing her daughter was still alive and being held captive.
W7y5o TIL: Spartans magistrates would declare war on their slaves every year so they were free to harm or kill them