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TIL of the Sunda Straits Crisis. A two week confrontation between the UK and Indonesia which nearly escalated into full scale war.

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Brwjk TIL The original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers series helped to inspire George Lucas's Star War series to include an "opening crawl," a signature device used in the opening sequence of every numbered film. Star Wars used the famous opening crawl, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."
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