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TIL James Earl Jones spent only 2.5 hours recording all of Darth Vadar's lines for Star Wars and was paid $7,500

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bbxE TIL Han Solo used to be an Imperial officer. However, he was dismissed by the Empire for refusing an order to kill a Wookiee named Chewbacca and became a smuggler. To repay this debt, Chewbacca protected Han for the rest of his life.
b6oD0 TIL the Danelectro eletric guitar company bought a surplus of women's lipstick tubes, put a bar magnet wrapped directly in copper wire in them, and made one of the most basic and cheapest pick-ups to date.
OwoR TIL Bill Murray tossed a producer into a lake during the filming of “What about Bob.” He also “threatened to throw her across the parking lot, then broke her sunglasses and threw them across the parking lot.”
epPND TIL about Alexandre Vattemare, he was a French ventriloquist. He trained as a surgeon, but was refused a diploma after making cadavers seem to speak during surgical exercises
OGyjR TIL One farming family in California uses more water then all of Las Vegas