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TIL that John Wayne provided the voice of Imperial spy Garindan in Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope via stock audio, making this his last role in a film before his death.

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78Zxx TIL about the Somaliland campaign, a series of military expeditions in northern Somalia by the British Empire against the Dervish movement from 1900 to 1920. It ended when the British aerially bombed the Dervish capital. 100K to 150K Somali civilians were ultimately killed in the campaign.
kJY4m TIL that psilocybin mushrooms may have greatly influenced the evolution of the human brain
EWNo TIL: of Willem Arondeus, a Homosexual Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who bombed the Amsterdam Public Records Office to hinder the Nazi identification of Jews. He was arrested & executed. His last words were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.”
XEYNr TIL Charlie Chaplin got the inspiration for the classic Modern Times after a conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on modern technology.
KY99G TIL many stories were made by our ancestors to explain the Aurora borealis in the skies. In Greenland, people held the bittersweet belief that the lights were the spirits of babies who had died in childbirth, dancing across the sky.