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TIL The prince of Liechtenstein threatened to pack up and leave his country and live in Austria if voters had rejected proposals that would have extended his powers in a 2003 referendum.

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Me79B TIL Marcia Lucas, George Lucas’ then wife, was the reason for major changes to the Original Star Wars film. Obi Wan’s death, Leia’s good Luck Kiss and re-editing the trench run to increase tension were all her ideas. She won the Academy Award for editing the film while George did not for directing.
78RYr TIL Members of the U.S. Army Special Ops and the FBI entered a room at the Revere Hotel in Boston. Finding a man sleeping, they handcuffed him, put him in the shower and interrogated him for 45 minutes before realizing the unassuming Delta pilot was the wrong guy.
JYxB4 TIL of A&P supermarkets, the "Wal-Mart before Wal-Mart"; it dominated American retail from 1910-1950, before falling into a long decline following federal anti-trust lawsuits and later corporate mismanagement, and survived until 2015 as a minor regional supermarket chain
4XDeN TIL of the sunkin library book burning memorial in Berlin, Germany. The library is built underground, is not accessible to the public, and can only be viewed through a glass plate that shows enough empty bookcases to hold 20,000 books, the amount burned in a book burning event on May 10, 1933.
7mL7 TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger was already a self made millionaire at 22 years old before appearing in his first movie. He used what he learned in school to invest his bodybuilding contest winnings in real estate and to market gym equipment and exercise supplements.