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n6Yr TIL traditional firearms exist in the Star Wars universe. They are called “slugthrowers” and are preferred weapons of bounty hunters for their unique advantages over blasters
vLa4 TIL that the current CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, is the woman who rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 when they were creating Google.
ePlD TIL Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy directed and produced the 80′s classic movie Three Men and a Baby. Highly illogical.
4kOJo TIL In November 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau was killed by the Sentinelese, an uncontacted tribe in the Andaman Island chain in India, during an illegal expedition to the island, where Chau had intended to convert the tribe to Christianity.
9Ybrm TIL in order to get their muscle and pony cars into a lower drag racing class, several manufacturers stated a lower horsepower rating than the real one. For example, Ford stated a 335 HP rating for the 428 Cobra Jet Mustang, while the actual one was about 410 HP.