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TIL Michael Jackson wanted to play Jar Jar Binks in 'Star Wars'

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OojB1 TIL from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian that Native Americans invented hockey, camouflage, sunscreen, and popcorn.
m1Dmy TIL science fiction writer Michael Crichton, author of 'Jurassic Park', was over 2m tall
GYgY1 TIL in 1984, Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars was so depressed he unsuccessfully tried to drown himself in the ocean and woke up the next morning believing that he was a ghost
RG99 TIL that the village of Giethoorn in the Netherlands has no roads. People get around on foot or via one of the village’s many canals
NLOM TIL- In 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run for President. She did it almost 50 years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment and on Election Day, November 5, 1872, she couldn’t even vote for herself