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TIL that despite making the film and all the evidence against it, George Lucas is adamant that Greedo shot first

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5Y6Br TIL that Daniel Oppenheimer won the Ig Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 for his paper "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with using long words needlessly" which argues that simple writing makes authors appear more intelligent than complex writing.
p8poA TIL that all the dogs who played Lassie were male and were all descended from the initial Lassie, a collie named Pal
0jxN TIL that we don’t see pure black when we close our eyes, we see a color named Eigengrau and although there are a few theories as to what causes it nobody’s quite sure.
xyw0 TIL an African man killed a lion with his bare hands before bleeding out and dying at a hospital after being attacked by hyenas
VMPg0 TIL that a study from the University of Connecticut found that cholesterol in egg yolks does not raise the LDL cholesterol particles that are associated with the development of cardiovascular disease.