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TIL A Photographer Died Protecting His Film During the 1980 Mt. St. Helens Eruption

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N7ZXN TIL that Peter Mayhew has played Chewbacca in every Star Wars film other than Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but was still listed in the credits of that film as "Chewbacca Consultant".
woOxE TIL about Jimi Heselden, who purchased Segway in 2009. 9 months later he fell into a river while riding a Segway and died.
xV6K0 NASA’s Mars Climate Orbiter burned up in the Martian atmosphere because engineers failed to convert units from English to metric.
Z1jB TIL Sheriff Buford Pusser responded to a burglary call and killed the armed wife of a mob boss; the mob boss exacted revenge by killing the Sheriff’s wife, and the Sheriff hung up his gun and badge to take down the mob all on his own one by one over the next five years in brutal and articulate ways
ldnB TIL There are only two countries in the world where 100% of the population are recorded as being English speakers. These are Gibraltar and Nauru.