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TIL that in Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks spoke in high-speed Tibetan.

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0wKGR TIL that by the time the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus visited the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt in the 5th Century B.C., the pyramid was already 2000 years old.
WpAL TIL There Is A Way To Dispose Of And Deactivate Nuclear/Radioactive Waste While Creating Electricity.
E1Nl0 TIL of Freedom Day: On Feb 3, 1964, nearly half a million New York City school students protested against segregation. The largest protest for civil rights in US history, it was twice as large as Martin Luther King Jr's March on Washington.
Xerj TIL That in 2009 scientists brought an extinct species back to life through cloning. The clone lived for seven minutes before dying of a lung defect.
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