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TIL Peter Falk lost his right eye at the age of three because of a retinoblastoma (a type of cancer). He wore a glass eye in its place, which gave him his trademark squint.

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LkYRr TIL scientists applied Einstein's Theory of Relativity to Luke and Leia's journeys to Cloud City in Empire Strikes Back and calculated that Leia would be nearly two years older than Luke
N7l8Q TIL: John Paul II (pope from 1978-2005) was the first non-Italian to be elected to the papacy since Adrian VI (1522-1523, and the only pope to have been born in the Netherlands.) Neither of John Paul II's succesors has been Italian.
4kENo TIL that Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young feuded over Young's diss lyrics on 'Southern man" and "Alabama". They eventually squashed the beef before Ronnie Van Zandt's death. Young will still occasionally cover Sweet Home Alabama in live shows
4k4eJ TIL that David Blaine has over the course of a decade been buried alive for 7 days, encased in ice for 64 hrs, stood on 100ft high pillar for 35 hrs, survived only on water for 44 days and spent 7 days submerged underwater water
lobrA TIL of Gabriele Gast, an East German spy who was a high-ranking West German intelligence officer. She spied to continue seeing her lover in East Germany and was never paid for her spy work. However, she later learned that her lover was a professional Stasi seducer who strung her along for 20 years.