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TIL the crowds of the pod races in Star Wars Episode I were half a million painted q-tips. With a blowing fan underneath the model stands, the q-tips would move around like a live crowd.

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w1l6 TIL King James IV put twin babies on an island to see if the children would speak the language of Eden. Children developed a communication method but the experiment failed because no one else knew what language of Eden sounded like.
rRV4M TIL Teddy Roosevelt was a feminist. A man who is an icon of modern masculinity, championed women's rights. In one essay he said “Viewed purely in the abstract, I think there can be no question that women should have equal rights with men.… " and was large supporter of the women's suffrage movement
9wLL7 TIL most 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles have more than 1000 pieces
Jov1 TIL a “Butt” was a medieval unit of measurement for wine, and a butt load of wine was equivalent to 129 gallons.
Z8XOo TIL about "turtle glass". Some states have laws that require coastal homeowners to turn off lights and draw curtains after 9pm because baby turtles migrate out to sea by moonlight and sometimes they get confused by lights and swim inland. Turtle glass is special window that doesn't reflect moonlight