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TIL George Lucas, for one dollar each, sold the rights of the original Star Wars trilogy to KUSC-FM, the public radio affiliate at his alma mater, to make a radio dramatization of the series.

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dYPr TIL JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jaime Dimon, paid a $9 billion fine to prevent a whistle-blower from testifying in one of the biggest white-collar crimes in American History.
OmE4 TIL the bees flight has never been a mystery. In 1934 Antonie Magnan wrote that calculations using fixed wing flight did not add up, and this proves they dont have fixed wings, not that they couldn’t fly
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