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TIL that in 2017, The Dallas Morning News apologized for a spelling error in a review of the original Star Wars movie... written in 1977, exactly 40 years to the date. They misspelled the word "Wookiee" as "Wookie", and apologized "to the seven-foot-tall hairy alien biped community" for the error.

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Vrl8 TIL the R2-D2 props used in Star Wars: The Force Awakens were constructed by long-time droid-building hobbyists, one of whom cheekily offered his services to Kathleen Kennedy at a Star Wars convention in 2013
P1EGe TIL that 10,000 people were involved in the construction of the World Trade Center (c.1965-66 1972) and that 60 people were killed in construction accidents while it was being built. During their lifetimes the towers were host to the birth of 17 babies and 19 murders.
lo4g5 TIL Winston Churchill demanded his coffin to be transported through the London Waterloo Station after his death, as he wanted future invitee, French president de Gaulle walk bare-headed under the Waterloo’s archway that marked Britain's victory over France in the Battle of Waterloo
e0o55 TIL in her youth, at school, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin attempted to test the efficacy of prayer by dividing her exam group in two groups, one using prayer and the other being a control group. The latter got better marks
OGJrR TIL that musician Dagmar Turner played the violin during her brain surgery at King’s College Hospital in London, ensuring her musical abilities remained intact while a tumor was being removed.