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TIL Jon Stewart interviewed George Lucus and asked where Obi Wan was from. George said StewJon playing off of jons name. It's now cannon.

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XAaX TIL in 1984 Stephen Fry bought the third Mac computer ever sold in Europe. The first two were purchased by none other than Douglas Adams.
n8lo TIL: The discovery of insulin, and the mechanism underlying diabetes, was prompted by the observation that ants were attracted to the urine of dogs that were missing their (surgically removed) pancreas.
16vJW Today I learned there is a city in Romania named ‘23 August’ after the 1944 royal coup
yapp TIL the fortune cookie was created by Japanese Americans and originally associated with Japanese food. In WWII, Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps and Chinese American manufacturers took control of the market, which is why today fortune cookies are associated with Chinese food.
LQr8d TIL: An Wang was an immigrant who coinvented "write-after-read" which made magnetic core memory possible in computing while working at Harvard. However, Harvard cut computer research in 1951 so he started a business. He said, "Success is more a function of consistent common sense than of genius"