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TIL Sports was actually played on the moon, and golf was the first one.

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M7XJ0 TIL the very first draft of Star Wars: A New Hope was a two-page outline called "The Journal of the Whills". It would be about the adventures of Mace Windy, a "Jedi-Bendu" from Planet Ophuchi, and his "padawaan learner", a 16-year-old boy called C.J. Thorpe.
Oogx1 TIL that 56% of people sit when they wipe and 44% of people stand. And when someone is faced with the opposite style wiper they tend to get extremely upset.
e05jE TIL that Spider-man received a Japanese live-action adaption in 1978 where the hero piloted a giant robot. This use of giant robots became its own franchise, with is later adapted back in the US as Power Rangers
4GRw TIL that there was a church of Euthanasia whose motto was “Save the planet, kill yourself”.
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