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TIL in 2012, the White House responded to a petition to have a Death Star built by stating that “the Administration does not support blowing up planets” and that it would not fund a weapon “with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship”.

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DGAV TIL A French bee-keeper trained his bees to consume cannabis resin, thereby producing all-natural (rather than infused) cannabis honey.
1a7Jr TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the only living head of state to have served in World War II
eYkJ TIL that when Jerry Garcia was a child his brother cut off his middle finger in an axe accident. He also watched his father drown.
vPBb7 TIL about the "Hatpin Panic" of the early 1900s, during which some states (and other regions) started regulating the length of hatpins worn in public
M1xB TIL women were not the first choice as telephone operators. Prior to September 1, 1878, when a woman named Emma Nutt became the first female operator, boys were the preferred choice. It soon became apparent, however, that boys would insult, curse at, and prank the customers.