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TIL that Orson Welles was originally supposed to voice "Star Wars" villain Darth Vader, but the role was ultimately given to James Earl Jones as George Lucas feared that Welles’ voice would be too recognizable.

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7rvyr Today I learned about the "Wood Wide Web", which is how trees not only "communicate" information to one another, but also share nutrients and they can even sabotage each other via this network of roots and fungi.
9lZG TIL a Japanese fishing boat sank because a Russian cargo plane dropped a live cow from 30,000 feet.
kDV5 TIL that a St. Bernard named Bamse was a mascot of the Royal Norwegian Navy during WWII and was known for breaking up fights amongst his crewmates. He once saved a young lieutenant commander who was being attacked by a man wielding a knife by pushing the assailant into the sea.
jNrgQ TIL for $22,000 Swiss company Algordanza will take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one. Most stones come out blue because humans contains trace amounts of boron. Occasionally diamond pops out white, yellow or black.
16JJ7 TIL about Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the Heaven's Gate cult, who falsely believed, along with his followers, that a spacecraft was located behind the Hale-Bopp Comet when it passed by Earth in 1997.