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TIL that when the Czech Republic conducted their 2011 census, their government discovered that 15,070 Czechs had listed their religious beliefs as “Jedi”

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b6vkQ TIL Jim Marshall, inventor of the Marshall amplification system widely used by rock guitarists, contracted a form of tuberculosis that affected his bones when he was a young boy. For treatment, he was kept in plaster casts from his ankles to his armpits until he was a teenager.
aw6RN TIL the actual yeti may just be the extremely rare Tibetan blue bear. It is one of the rarest subspecies of bear in the world, it is only known to exist through a small number of fur and bone samples.
BryEk TIL that the actor inside R2-D2 hated the actor inside C-3P0, calling him ‘the rudest person I’ve ever met’.
wLPZ6 TIL that singer Marvin Gaye was fatally shot the day before his birthday, by his own father (a Christian minister), by a gun that Marvin had gifted to him. Marvin was suicidal and physically hit his father because it was established that his father would kill any of his children who might do so.
Eg6Po TIL Tiger Woods has a total of 20 hole in ones in his career but he went a full 2 decades between numbers 19 and 20 (1998-2018).