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TIL there are officially 65,486 Jedi in Australia

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4Xj9N TIL, Ming-Na Wen who is well known for role as Dr. Jing-Mei Chen in ER, was pregnant with her first child in 2000. As a result, she continued to act and her pregnancy was written into the E.R. script, with her character giving up the child for adoption, following her child's birth on November 2000.
LQN59 TIL that particles in cosmic rays can cause the bits in your computer's RAM to flip states and we have redundant bits to stop this very phenomenon from occurring
8a4VG TIL: When Lawrence of Arabia was killed in a motorcycle accident in May 1935, his doctor, Hugh Cairns, realized that his life might have been saved had Lawrence been wearing a helmet. Cairns introduced crash helmets for military dispatch riders, thereby reducing fatalities by 50%.
pYMYN TIL in 2016 a man inadvertently recreated a "Seinfeld" plot: Attempting to return 10,000 aluminum cans in Michigan (10c return rate per) from Kentucky (5c return rate). He was later arrested for one count of beverage return of nonrefundable bottles.
EgWwP TIL: After suing Facebook for deleting his profile, Jason Crawford (from Georgia, USA) was awarded $52K USD.