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TIL that Princess Leia’s iconic double-bun hairstyle was inspired by ‘soldaderas’ - Mexican revolutionary rebel fighters from the turn of the 20th century

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m1d8x TIL that Sassanid king Khosrow l invaded and sacked the City of Antioch, in which he brought captured citizens of Antioch to a newly built exact replica of Antioch called Wēh Antīōk Khosrow which literally translates to "Khosrow's better Antioch"
0dMWA TIL that there's a Detroit company called extreme kidnapping where people pay from 500 to 1500 to get tied up shocked by an actual stun gun and kidnapped just for fun
wLDGJ TIL that George Orwell, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm, was actually a pseudonym for author Eric Arthur Blair.
9oNX TIL The Codex Leicester, a collection of famous scientific writings by Leonardo da Vinci, was sold to Bill Gates in 1994 for $30.8M. After Gates acquired the Codex, he had its pages scanned and distributed as screen savers and wallpapers for Windows 95.
KYEBa TIL: an Italian former porn star, Carlo Masi, quit porn to do research in applied mathematics, got his PhD, taught real analysis, became a professor, and then got sacked for being a former porn star. He sued and won against the university.