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TIL George Takei once called for peace between Star Wars and Star Trek fans to unite against Twilight fans

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8eBL TIL that American cheese isn’t labeled cheese because it’s not real cheese, and that the only difference between the white and orange types is food coloring
69v8m TIL in 1972, astronaut Neil Armstrong visited the Scottish town of Langholm, where he was read a 400-year-old law declaring any “Armstrong” that enters the town must be hanged
J47V TIL that Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm.