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TIL the dreaded Emperor in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back was portrayed by Marjorie Eaton, a 79 year old woman. (re-post, rule 2)

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6E1Rw TIL Winston Churchill and Princess Diana were from the same aristocratic family, the Spencers. Churchill's last name was officially Spencer-Churchill.
epZR4 TIL Japan's new PM Shigeru Ishiba is a moderate conservative, for same-sex marriage, a fan of cooking, especially curries, military vehicles, trains and Japanese idols, is part of a Japanese govt. intraparty ramen society, and said he would deploy the JSDF in response to Godzilla.
QND5e Today I learned Bin Laden had claimed he wasn't behind the 9/11 attacks.
9wpym TIL The oil doesn't exist underground in caverns that would otherwise be empty if it wasn't for the oil. Instead of thinking of large empty pockets, think of a wet sponge, where the sponge is rock and it's "wet" with oil.
Jp51 TIL: In 2006, Mark Zuckerberg turned down a $1 billion deal with Yahoo at the age of 22 saying:“I don’t know what I could do with the money. I’d just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have.”