Post * Wx1L — Curious Curator

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TIL actor Peter Mayhew had a choice of playing Darth Vader or Chewbacca in Star Wars. He chose Chewbacca because he wanted to play a hero.

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OR86 TIL the Dionne Quintuplets, born in 1934, were identical and conceived naturally. Their mother, who already had five children, was expecting twins. She was pre-eclamptic, went into early labor, and gave birth at home. In total they weighed 13.4 lb., but thrived and were never admitted to hospital.

QJ5k6 TIL Coca-Cola created a clear version of their soda for the Soviet Union in the 1940s called "White Coke"

78r9x TIL the novel "Dr. Awkward & Olson in Oslo" by Lawrence Levine is a 31,954 word long palindrome.

W19N TIL that James Bond originally used a Beretta 418 until a fan of the novels (and small arms expert) wrote to Ian Flemming criticizing it as “a woman’s gun”. When Flemming had Bond switch to his iconic Walther PPK in Dr. No, he wrote the fan into the scene as MI6’s armorer

XEw1k TIL the Schloss Starkenberger Brewery in Tarrenz, Austria houses seven 13-foot-long pools of beer. Each two-hour swim costs almost $260.