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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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