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TIL that Carrie Fisher got a copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special from George Lucas (in exchange for recording DVD commentary for Star Wars) and showed it at parties 'mainly at the end of the night when I want people to leave.'

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kOjeE TIL that NASA first confirmed the existence of water on Mars in 2008, when the Phoenix lander became the first man-made object to touch and sample true water on Mars.
rRQ0w TIL Dr. Alban, the musician famous for "It's My Life", is an actual doctor of medicine - namely, a dentist.
WkVM9 TIL that Roald Dahl‘s daughter Olivia died of measles and, feeling guilty about not having been able to do anything for her, he became a staunch proponent of immunisation
6boJ TIL there exists a musical work that consists only of silence, and predates John Cage’s 4'33’’ by 55 years
LQd5Z TIL that wycinanki - a Slavic version of the art of papercutting - became a popular folk craft in Poland in the mid-1800s. It is said to have originated with shepherds, passing time in the fields by cutting designs out of tree bark and leather, which were then used as decorations or given as gifts.