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TIL: Carrie Fisher made George Lucas give her a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special. She now plays it at the end of parties when she wants everyone to leave.

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LQ6MV TIL that Mary, Queen of Scots, smuggled her dog to her execution under her skirts. The dog tried to stay near her corpse and afterward, died when it refused to eat.
nW61b TIL that photosynthetic archaea(single-celled organisms similar in some ways to bacteria) absorb light using rhodopsin instead of chlorophyll, which is the same protein that our eyes use to see. The way they consume their food is the same way we see the world.
rRVo1 TIL the lowland streaked tenrec is the only mammal to use stridulation, more commonly associated with insects and snakes, for generating sound.
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