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TIL Darth Vader’s name was changed in Italy because Vader sounds like toilet bowel in italian

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Gbe7 TIL Private companies are now providing trained birds of prey to take down hostile drones and protect their clients’ airspace
XvVR TIL Adult Women are currently the largest computer/video gaming demographic at 36%, partly due to the rise in the casual gaming market- the stereotypical teen boy only accounts for 17% of the gaming population. Non gamers have also become the minority.
egLE TIL there exists a programming language so deliberately difficult to use, that the first program written in it was created two years after the language was released, and it was was written by another program; It is named for the Eighth Circle of Hell.
j61wR TIL about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, the idea that 12,800 years ago, the resulting impacts from a comet breaking up over earth's atmosphere would have struck glaciers and ice caps across the globe could have caused the great flood present in many ancient culture's stories/myths
nyj7 TIL The Dark Side of the Moon was #1 for only one week on the Billboard album chart, although it remained on the chart for 741 weeks