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TIL that the Australian Mint produced a “Han Solo in carbonite” 1 oz. silver coin.

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E1PbP TIL About a fire at North Orange Blossom Trail warehouse in 1991. It burned so hot they couldn't put it out with water because it separated the hydrogen and oxygen.
5Yel9 TIL Mike Myers' 2008 film "The Love Guru" was so badly received by critics he hasn't had an on-camera starring role in a film since. One critic, in his review, predicted it would be "career-killing" for Myers and "one of the worst films of at least the past several years."
gMpy7 TIL Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter was an aspiring mycologist when the prestigious Linnean Society rejected her submitted paper on fungi reproduction because she was a woman. 100 years later (and 54 years after her death), they formally apologized for their sexist treatment of her work
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