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TIL Money, in fact, can buy happiness. A Harvard study showed more money = more happiness, esp millionaires who are self-made.

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yQ1OX TIL Elephants were used as combat in wars as late as the 1890’s and continued to be used in non-combat roles all the way up to the Vietnam War
ne1MP TIL George Lucas didn’t want Harrison Ford to play Indiana Jones because he didn’t want them to become known as a pair like DeNiro and Scorsese. Lucas and Spielberg thought Tom Selleck was perfect for the part but he had already filmed the pilot “Magnum P.I.” and couldn’t get out of the contract
74DP TIL that, according to George Lucas, the entire Star Wars saga is told by R2D2, some hundred years after Return of the Jedi.
ovBW TIL Stephen King Believed his popularity to be an accident, So King wrote under a pen name “Richard Bachman”. The books sold equally well, and King was outed. Happy birthday Stephen King!
woVKJ TIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its star