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TIL Mace Windu’s purple lightsaber was a personal request from Jackson to Lucas as a quid pro quo for appearing in the films, as well as a way of making the character unique and easily distinguishable

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9KJX TIL that it takes us less than 2 minutes today to take as many photos as the whole of humanity took in the 1800s.
Lk15P TIL that in the late 1700s and 1800s, there was widespread panic about the evils of book-reading, which was described as “an outrage on decency and common sense”. People were concerned that avid novel-readers were ‘addicted’ and were becoming anti-social.
d8GWZ TIL: Jennifer Lawrence had her first acting assignment at age nine, when she played the role of a prostitute in a church play that was based on the Book of Jonah.
b9x8Z TIL The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply and it gets its oxygen directly from the air
kO7w1 TIL The longest walkable distance on Earth spans 14,334 miles starting from Cape Town, South Africa to Magadan, Russia. At a normal pace of 12.5 miles per day, it would take 3 years to complete.