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TIL that porgs were in The Last Jedi because it was easier to create a new species than to digitally remove the puffins that actually lived on the island

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jNAxn TIL: Ethiopia is several years behind the rest of the world. Since the religious country is so strongly influenced by the Coptic Orthodox Church, it still adheres to the traditional calendar of that church, which is seven years behind the rest of the world. Currently it's November 2011 there.
7rM0X TIL Bob Odenkirk and Judd Apatow wrote the infamous SNL sketch starring William Shatner telling a bunch of hapless Trekkies to "Get a life!" at a Star Trek convention
Qkvd TIL: That in 1955, Quaker Oats Company gave away legal deeds to tiny parcels of land in Alaska in boxes of cereals
ADjlx TIL about Izumi Sakai, the vocalist and de facto leader of the J-Pop band Zard. After she died from an accident while undergoing treatment for cancer, a posthumous single was released and used as a theme song for her favorite anime Detective Conan
64ow TIL that today is the 47th anniversary of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty - 34 Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40-million dollar state-of-the-art signals intelligence platform was destroyed