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TIL Mark Hamill thought Star Wars might have been a parody film when he first read the script.

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XElZR TIL human eggs are visible to the naked eye.
M7Rbm TIL: The "voice" of the GPS is often recorded by a person named Karen Jacobsen. She is an Australian singer and voiceover artist who recorded her voice in 2002 for a text-to-speech system used in over a billion GPS and smartphone devices worldwide.
xD85 TIL an Owl’s eyes are so well developed, they are not eye balls but elongated tubes. It is for this reason they cannot roll or move their eyes and can only look straight ahead (which is why they have adapted an extraordinary range of movement in their neck).
gMmlD TIL the tallest wave ever recorded reached 524m when it struck land. This is the height of building 1 of the World Trade Center (including the antenna)
1aVOV TIL of the "the loneliest whale in the world," who roams the seas without a pack, crying out a 52-hertz mating call too high for other whales to hear. Except some scientists think other whales are actually just ignoring him: "all these whales can hear this guy...He's just odd."