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TIL pro wrestler Diamond Dallas Page sued Jay-Z for stealing his “diamond cutter” hand symbol…and won.

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0wvQL TIL while writing Star Wars, George Lucas had an Alaskan Malamute (large dog breed) named Indiana. She went everywhere with him, so this inspired Lucas to give Han Solo a "big, furry" sidekick. She also inspired the name for Indiana Jones... who named himself after the family dog.
KPNG TIL a US Marines airplane cut through a cable car wire at an Italian ski resort, which caused the cable car to plunge 80 meters (260 feet) to the ground, killing all 20 people onboard. One of the crewmen later destroyed incriminating evidence against himself and the rest of the crew.
XEZeQ TIL that Polish mathematicans broke Enigma first in 1932, then handed over all the materials for free to the allied forces in 1939
jjJj TIL A statue of Queen Victoria was moved one inch on its plinth by a German bomb in 1940. It was otherwise unharmed.
6Er0m TIL about the Costasiella kuroshimae (AKA "leaf slug" or "leaf sheep"), a species of sacoglossan sea slug that has the ability to retain the chloroplasts from the algae it feeds on and use them to photosynthesize its own energy.