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TIL Star Wars was one of the first films to do away with opening credits. George Lucas was fined $250,000 by the Directors Guild of America for not crediting himself... so he resigned.

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oygL TIL a crime watch meeting in Florida was interrupted by a falling 75lb bale of cocaine that had been ejected from a drug smuggling plane flying overhead
4koDJ TIL Long term Labour Party Leader and former Australian Prime Minister Robert (Bob) Hawke was a CIA asset. Regularly informing to the USA and secretly promoting things like the ANZUS Treaty whilst leader of the Australian Unions
78Dbp TIL in 1999, Martin Lawrence almost died from heat exhaustion while jogging in the Big Momma costume. He went into a 3 day coma while having a body temperature of 107 °F
GYaZE TIL mangoes can increase and prolong a cannabis high
O4je TIL The most abundant mineral is 51% of the Earth but had no official name until 2014 because there was no way to get a natural sample from 400 miles beneath the surface