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TIL in 2017, Saudi Arabia accidentally printed school textbooks which included an image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal at the signing of the U.N. Charter in 1945

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0w6W5 TIL Ted Bundy returned to a crime scene the morning after he had abducted and killed a student, Georgann Hawkins, in order to retrieve some evidence. There, in the midst of a major investigation, he took her earrings and one of her shoes from an adjoining parking lot, and left, unobserved.
4XWKb TIL That Super Foods are no better than locally grown products and can only hurt farmers and the ecology.
b6Xya TIL Ernest Hemingway was a regular customer of Abercrombie & Fitch; the gun with which he committed suicide in 1961 was purchased from them. Following Hemingway's death, his wife placed several of his guns on consignment with the company.
dDLo7 TIL Julian Lennon had to buy back the letters he wrote to his father, John Lennon, at an auction because Yoko Ono wouldn’t give them to him.
vPvd8 TIL the small Pacific island of Niue uses legal tender coins which depict characters from Disney, Pokémon, Peanuts, Star Wars, and more.