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TIL Harrison Ford uses his personal helicopter in search and rescue missions

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Y7K0v TIL: Rain Gods And Prayers to The Great Mystery
oRBM8 TIL A Washington DC Judge filed a $54 million lawsuit against a small dry cleaner for losing his pants
EZ5p TIL Alec Guinness asked George Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan because he “couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines”, and that he once told a fan who wanted an autograph to never watch Star Wars again
dDVPj TIL In 1999 Hurricane Lenny, or Wrong-Way-Lenny, is the only recorded hurricane to have traveled backwards
epNKL TIL The US likely would have had explorers on Mars by the 1980s, but Nixon killed every proposal in 1969, slashed the NASA budget after Apollo 12, and stifled space exploration by setting low Earth orbit as the norm