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TIL Alec Guinness was the same age playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars as was Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the Force Awakens

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oRmLK TIL Tom Cruise auditioned for Grease 2 (1982) but was turned down because of his height. Executives said "he's too short to make it in Hollywood"
9KyM TIL Thomas Jefferson wrote his State of the Union messages, instead of delivering them in a speech like George Washington. All presidents followed Jefferson’s lead until Woodrow Wilson resurrected Washington’s precedent in 1913.
bQQa TIL of “rubberbanding”, a way video games adjust difficulty. In Mario Kart and other racing games computer vehicles behind the player become much faster, and those ahead become much slower, as if connected by a rubber band with the player.
6947l TIL after property and zoning disputes with his town and neighbors Martin Heemeyer constructed a modified armored bulldozer in secret over the course of 18 months in order to destroy the businesses and homes of those he believed conspired against him
npP7 TIL that in Singapore anyone born in the year 2000 or later is forever banned from buying cigarettes or any other tobacco related product.