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TIL Carrie Fisher wore no underwear in Star Wars because George Lucas convinced her “there is no underwear in outerspace”

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VM9r4 TIL of Ruswarp. Pronounced Russup, he was a 14 year old border collie who stayed at the side of his fallen master for 11 winter weeks on a Welsh mountainside. He lived just long enough to attend his master's funeral. Now his statue looks across the countryside where he once walked.
5jd8 TIL in 1980, former Vice President Spiro Agnew published a memoir in which he implied that Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, had planned to assassinate him if he refused to resign the Vice Presidency, and that Haig told him to “go quietly…or else,” the memoir’s title.
x6Mk1 Today I learned about Operation Yellow Ribbon, a Canadian response to 9/11 and the support to the American people during a tragic point in history
k0L5 TIL Joaquin Phoenix, was born Joaquin Bottom. After his parents took his siblings and him out of the cult “the children of god” they renamed themselves Phoenix to symbolize a new beginning
mkQx TIL starting in 1938, GM bought out the public transportation in many Californian cities, including Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego) and ran it to the ground so people would switch to private transportation.