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TIL Anthony Daniels (b. 1946) is the only actor to have either appeared in or been involved with all nine films in the Star Wars series. (C-3PO)

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Egn8d TIL one of the paintings used as set dressing for the home in the film Stuart Little was a long lost 1920s painting by Róbert Berény, Sleeping Lady with Black Vase. The painting wasn’t identified for a decade after the films release, when an art historian was watching the film with his daughter.
8aPZa TIL Jimmy Fallon owns the rights to the Olive Garden slogan “When You’re Here, You’re Family.” A licensing agreement was reached when the restaurant decided to retire the slogan, which allows Fallon to use it on his show.
QJ1na TIL If the Earth were 50 percent bigger in diameter, no amount of engineering in the universe would get a rocket all the way to orbit; there would simply be too much gravity for any design or any chemical propellant to overcome.
Aea TIL; William Randolph Hearst ran a campaign to destroy the hemp industry because hemp became a very cheap substitute for paper pulp and timber.
OoK64 TIL of the Ghost Camaro, a highly modified muscle car driven by a Danish Special Forces solder, used during the Bosnian war to successfully deliver much needed aid to civilians