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TIL: The National Park Service has an Investigative Services Branch which does the equivalent job of the FBI

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YpaOB TIL that the wife of George Lucas, Marcia Lucas, won an Oscar in 1977 for Best Film Editing in Star Wars. To date, George Lucas has won zero Oscars.
RAO6 TIL that medal of honor recipient Thomas Baker asked to left behind during a Japanese Counter Attack on Saipan due to being wounded. He only asked for 1 pistol with 8 bullets. After returning the US army found his corpse with 8 dead Japanese.
woLBM TIL "wi-fi" doesn't mean "wireless fidelity" or anything else; it was made up as a marketing tool and is a user-friendly name to refer to technology that adhered to standards known as IEEE 802.11.
Y7e8B TIL the nut of Honey Nut Cheerios has not been present in the cereal since 2006
ANV4d TIL that even though Richard Attenborough planned for 95,000 paid extras to film Gandhi’s funeral scene, over 300,000 people gathered as unpaid volunteers out of respect, turning it into one of the largest real-life tributes ever captured on film.