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TIL That Weird Al Yankovic wanted to include the song Yoda on an album, but securing permission from both George Lucas and the Kinks delayed the physical release of the song for about five years. Lucas eventually gave Yankovic permission.

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AD5Nn TIL of an Indian con man, Natwarlal who "sold" the Taj Mahal and the Parliament House of India. He is often compared with Frank Abagnale and Victor Lustig.
E1MVV TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.
nWn6P TIL that JRR Tolkien never said Hobbits have unusually large feet. This notion was introduced by illustrators and later copied into other depictions.
NNJb Scientists detected an atomic nucleus traveling at 99.9999999999999% of the speed of light, with energy 20 quintillion times that of visible light. It was appropriately named the “Oh-My-God Particle.”
47Nw til that in 1993 Nike released a commercial featuring NBA star Charles Barkley, who’s message was basically that parents should be role models to their children, not basketball players.