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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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QNNDp TIL of the Beach Vole, one of the rarest known mammal species. This rodent can be found on only one island in Massachusetts.
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