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TIL George Lucas named Tosche Station on Tatooine after Dave Toschi, the San Francisco Police Department’s chief investigator in the Zodiac Killer case

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m1mBy TIL the final televised tobacco ad in the US was shown at the last moment legally possible during the Tonight Show
x6b77 TIL with a "Constant acceleration" space ship, at 1G acceleration you could travel the diameter of the milky way (105,000 Light years) in a short 12 years.
MGnK TIL Hong Kong has the world’s most efficient subway system with a 99.9% on-time rate and the entire system is manage via an AI
xNAD TIL McDonald’s almost got rid of its golden arches in the 1960’s. The arches were only kept because a psychologist they hired said they had great Freudian importance in the subconscious mind of customers. They represented “mother McDonald’s breasts.”
m1wOR TIL that while each brain hemisphere controls half the body, both hemispheres see from both eyes, but each only sees the left or right half of each image from each eye