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TIL Mark Hamill would ask fans camped out on his yard to retrieve the mail and look after the property when he was away.

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4Jag TIL The first airline stewardess were all registered nurses, but this requirement disappeared when many nurses left to enlist during WWII.
QNXk6 TIL about the Shirley exception, a mythical exception to a draconian law, so named because supporters of the law will argue that "surely there will be exceptions for truly legitimate needs" even in cases where the law does not in fact provide any.
grOO9 TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented in the 1940s to be mixed with (often homemade) whiskey
e0w5D TIL that bamboo is the fastest growing plant in the world and can grow roughly 0.9 meters in a day if presented with the appropriate conditions.
y7oX TIL the Empire State Building’s spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast for Zeppelin airships