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TIL Anthony Daniels (the actor who plays C3PO) is the 11th highest grossing actor of all time-- because he's been in every Star Wars movie

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kJ0r1 TIL there has been only one spacewalk with more than two people, which was on the STS-49 space shuttle mission. Astronauts Pierre Thuot, Rick Hieb, and Thomas Akers performed an unscheduled spacewalk in order to capture a faulty satellite after several previous two-man attempts had failed.
ROb1 TIL that the first female doctor in Britain spent 56 years disguised as a man. It wasn’t until after her death in 1865, that the doctor’s secret was finally discovered.
5VJ48 TIL that in 1983 instead of taking Marvel to court for "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for plagiarizing his short story "Soldier from Tomorrow", Harlan Ellison settled w/ EIC Jim Shooter for a lifetime subscription to everything Marvel ever published.
no97 TIL an 11 year old boy was elected mayor of Crabb, Texas on the platform that he would work to incorporate the town even though it meant he would lose his seat. He was quoted as saying that “the mayor isn’t there to sit and worry about keeping his job. He’s there to do what’s best for the people.”
OxZ6 TIL that Steve Jobs last words were “Oh wow.” repeated 3 times.