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TIL Mark Hamill followed up Star Wars with a weird comedy called Corvette Summer. He plays a high school student who befriends a sex worker and joins a crime ring while hitchhiking to Las Vegas to recover a stolen Corvete. It's essentially the Dude, Where's My Car of the 70s

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7r9Gr TIL that although penalties are unenforced it is against federal law to use the United States flag for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever.
5Y6p9 TIL: In Cendrillon, the original story of Cinderella, her real name was Lucette. The stepsisters gave her the nickname Cindarella because she always had to clean the chimney and was forced to sleep in the cinders by the fireplace, leaving her dirty.
xZQB TIL That “The Right of the First Night”, where a feudal lord had the right to be the first to bed the local wives, has no definitive evidence and might be a fabrication.
BgBnd TIL an analysis of Beethoven's hair found high levels of lead, arsenic & mercury. The high amount of lead in particular likely contributed to his deafness. One lock of hair had 380 micrograms per gram & a second one had 258 micrograms. A normal level of lead is around 4 micrograms or less per gram.
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