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TIL the Millennium Falcon was built in Wales

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yj5p TIL that the murderers of Emmett Till, who was killed on this day in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, gave a full confession detailing the murder to Look Magazine, after they were aquitted of murder by an all white jury.
GYBxQ TIL That Shel Silverstein wrote a book called "Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book" a parody of his other books with a more adult twist. It encouraged kids to do bad things such as give daddy a haircut, Throw eggs at the ceiling, or put sugar in the gas tank through Shel's 'light-hearted' writing style.
BgyZD TIL there was an animated sitcom between The Flintstones and The Simpsons called Wait Til Your Father Gets Home.
N7QQP TIL that while the United States Supreme Court hear only about 70 cases a year, the Indian Supreme Court hear up to 700 legal matters in a single day.
ZpAEQ TIL Teruo Nakamura, a Japanese solider in WWII, fled to Indonesia in 1944. There he survived alone in the jungle as the believed that the war continued. Later, a pilot accidentally found his hut in 1974 and shortly after, he became the last WWII soldier to surrender (30 years after the war ended).