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TIL: Yankee Doodle was originally written as a dis track by the British

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OZA1 TIL that one actor has played both Luke and Leia Skywalker, Aidan Barton. He is the son of editor Roger Barton and was Baby Luke and Leia in Episode III.
Wk0GN TIL It's ridiculously hard to get an accurate measurement of a coastline that all will agree on.
0dPjy TIL the first Internet search engine was “Archie”, which was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a postgraduate student at McGill University in Montreal. It’s still around today and is considered a useful way to index FTP (File Transfer Protocol) archives.
xVB07 TIL Happy Days was originally a sitcom centering around a Midwestern family that just purchased their first TV set (the first one in the neighborhood!) and how the teenage son planned to use the TV as a chick magnet
OGbE6 TIL one of the leaders of the NAACP in the early 20th century was Walter White. Who was able to pass as white and protect himself during tense situations in the 20s and 30s.