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TIL George Lucas actually didn't have a plan for where the story would go when the original Star Wars films came out.

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JYnEv TIL that Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian Ethnographer, sailed from Peru to Polynesia on an primitive balsa wood raft to prove that ancient trans-oceanic travel was possible. When experts called it a fluke, he made an Egyptian reed boat and sailed it from Morocco to Central America to prove them wrong.
dgD9 TIL 1) a goat reached the rank of lance corporal in the British Army and 2) got demoted for inappropriate behavior during the Queen’s Official Birthday.
m1gJy TIL that in 1906, a serial killer in Morocco was sentenced to death by immurement (being walled in).
LkdZP TIL that the word Hallelujah comes from the Hebrew hallelu+Jah meaning “praise god.” It is synonymous with the Muslim phrase humdulillah, to the extent that Arabic-speaking Christians and Jews use humdullilah in place of hallelujah.
1aoV TIL that there are more pyramids in Sudan than in all of Egypt.