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TIL: There are 19 countries that do not recognise the People’s Republic of China

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QJB6L TIL George Lucas actually didn't have a plan for where the story would go when the original Star Wars films came out.
oRnAK TIL The Mandalorian TV series showed us a Star Wars Bathroom for the first time in their live action productions
4xNN TIL under secrecy, that the first jet powered aircraft flown in the US was piloted by Jack Woolams. Already confused by seeing a plane flying with no propeller, other pilots who spotted Woolams would then see him in the cockpit wearing a gorilla mask, a bowler hat, and smoking a cigar.
LkEYP TIL about the English common law known as the doctrine of Ancient Lights, which holds that people can have a reasonable expectation of sunlight; and that when they do, their neighbors ought not to take it away.
loPQG TIL of "Arsenic Eaters" - a group of Austrians who ingested doses far beyond the lethal dose of arsenic trioxide without any apparent harm. They used to eat up small doses initially and gradually built up to 300-400mg as a mithridate to help enable strenuous work at high altitudes in the Alps