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TIL The word "Droid" was created by George Lucas and he makes money on every "Droid" cell phone sold

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R9vQ TIL a woman spent 12 years in a Kansas mental institution against her will after being diagnosed as a schizophrenic because they assumed she was mentally ill and speaking gibberish. She was really Tarahumara Indian from Mexico who spoke a rare dialect.
awxWJ TIL that Ziggy Marley recorded the theme song "Believe in Yourself" for the children's show Arthur
wo8bE TIL Galyn Susman was the individual who saved ‘TOY STORY 2’ by having a copy of the film at home after someone accidentally ran a command that deleted 90% of the film from Pixar’s files.
oaor TIL texting is considered to be closer to speaking (“finger speaking”) than it is to writing; it has many hallmarks of an evolving language in its own right with a unique grammar and dialect. Rather than hurting people’s writing skills, texting may provide bidialectical benefits to the brain.
AD0Yo TIL that duels were so popular amongst military officials in the 1800s that the United States were running out of qualified officers and causing the War Department to put a ban on dueling.