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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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6P0m TIL NASA is developing 3D printed pizzas for astronauts
9Wy6 TIL in 1955 there was no federal statute that made it a crime to blow up a plane. So the bomber of Flight 629, Jack Graham, was charged with a single count of murdering his mother. All passengers and crew (44) were killed.
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