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TIL George Lucas wanted David Lynch to direct "Return of the Jedi"

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nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.
0wn41 TIL Nirvana considered making a video for All Apologies that featured Kurt Cobain playing Lee Harvey Oswald, singing to the camera and making a pie in the book depository. Cobain would then throw the pie out the window, which would hit Kennedy (played by Grohl or Novoselic) in the back of the head.
NX0oe TIL saturation divers have to live weeks in a pressurized environment underwater.
x6lxB TIL General Motors created an electric car in the 90s to comply with California clean air regulations, after it proved far more popular than expected they shut down the program and against the protests of their customers reclaimed all the existing EVs and crushed them and buried them in the desert.
xoY0 TIL in 2011 a Swedish man was arrested for attempting to split atoms in his kitchen. Radium, americium and uranium were all found in his home.