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EZ5p TIL Alec Guinness asked George Lucas to kill off Obi-Wan because he “couldn’t go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines”, and that he once told a fan who wanted an autograph to never watch Star Wars again
e0mr5 TIL raindrops on Saturn's largest moon, Titan (the only other known world with seasonal rainfall) would be twice as big as raindrops on Earth and would fall as slow as snowflakes. Also, they're made of liquid methane, not water.
kgx5 TIL bodybuilding was banned in China in 1953.
D18QP TIL the smallest US post office is in the middle of the Florida Everglades, the Ochopee Post Office - it was originally a 7x8' shed for a tomato farm!
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.