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TIL that in 2013, Star Wars was dubbed in Navajo, making it the first major film to be dubbed in a Native American language

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gr7Zb TIL a doctor named Chester Southam injected his patients with cancer without their consent to see how their bodies would react.
vPPvB TIL about the Epley maneuver, a simple and effective treatment for vertigo which involves a sequence of head movements. Doctor John Epley had a hard time convincing other doctors that it was effective despite the ease of application and proven efficacy.
wLe67 TIL Pistachios are expensive because the trees take up to 20 years to reach peak production, and are "biennial-bearing", meaning a light harvest every other year. The nuts used to be dyed red to hide stains caused by hand picking, most pistachios are now machine picked and dyeing is unnecessary.
NXVw8 TIL Scans have revealed there’s a large unexplored void in the Great Pyramid of Giza
GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home