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TIL the Rubik's Cube was so popular in the 80's that the best selling book in 1981 was about solving techniques, selling over 6 million copies

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wLd5E TIL James Earl Jones demanded David Prowse receive sole credit for portraying Darth Vader believing that his voice was 'just special effects'
wL8VP TIL Hawaii's public education system began in 1841 and is the oldest in the U.S. west of the Mississippi. When the kingdom was overthrown it became illegal to teach the Hawaiian language, teachers were punished for speaking Hawaiian at school. It wasn't until 1978 that the state made it mandatory.
KYVdE TIL that in 2013, Katy Perry, when asked what was in her purse by a fan while promoting a new album, said that it used to have locks of hair from Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga in it, that she got while sharing a dressing room at the Grammys with them. She also put little bows on each lock of hair.
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N7Ryb TiL The Soviets Reversed engineered an air to air missle when in 1958 a MiG-17 hit by a American Sidewinder missle survived the impact and returned to its base with the missile still embedded in it.