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TIL Morning Star is not just your planet Venus pretending to be a star, or an investment platform, it's also a brutal medieval weapon consisting of a spiked head mounted on a shaft

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Ovg4 TIL That Transformers the Movie (1986) starred the voice acting of Leonard Nimoy and Orson Welles
eaVb TIL that the first act of the UK’s State Opening of Parliament is to check the cellars to ensure that it doesn’t have any bombs in it. This is a tradition that has carried on after the original failed gun powder plot of 1605.
BMeK TIL some anthropologists believe that beer was responsible for the rise of human civilization.
VEGm TIL the deserts of Tunisia housed the original Star Wars movie sets for the film’s planet Tatooine. More than 30 years after the premier of the first movie in the series, the sets are still very well preserved and visitors to Tunisia can even stay in Luke Skywalker’s home.
gDbL TIL that the origins of driving on the left side go back to Medieval England where Knights would ride their horses on the left side of the road so if they encountered an enemy their sword hand would be on the correct side - nearly all countries that drive on the left now were once English colonies