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TIL that in the Star Wars Universe, Ewok Jerky was a popular snack across the Outer Rim.

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N77E8 TIL the Miss South Carolina teen who became an internet meme for her incomprehensible answer contemplated suicide after her pageant flub
woOP8 TIL that in 1986, electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre in his next album was going to include a saxaphone piece played by astronaut Ron Mcnair, which would have made it the first piece of music to be recorded in space, but McNair, along with the rest of his crew died during the Challenger Disaster
OorZ7 TIL that Kazakhstan was the entire Soviet Union for 4 days
XEAZR TIL Researchers created an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass
6B1W TIL that in 2012, the Smithsonian officially recognized video games as an art form and had an exhibit to “comprehensively examine the evolution of video games as an artistic medium.”