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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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kJkM5 TIL that as a solo artist, duo, trio, quartet, quintet and musical ensemble, Paul McCartney is the only artist to have reached the top of the UK charts.
N7p8N TIL Nietzsche, Freud, Rilke, and Rée all fell in love with the same woman, Lou Salomé. Intellectual and prolific, she was the first female psychoanalyst and lived free of society’s prescription for women. She was the ultimate feminist/ubermensch, yet is completely forgotten by history.
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