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TIL R2D2 was controlled by a man inside its body; Kenneth George Baker was an English actor and musician. He portrayed the character R2-D2 in the Star Wars franchise and also appeared in The Elephant Man, Time Bandits, Willow, Flash Gordon, Amadeus and Labyrinth.

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VMoNQ TIL Apple has a "no smoking" ban regarding every single device they ever made; in other words, if you smoke while using any Apple product, your warranty is void immediately.
b6pb7 TIL The United States built 2,710 Liberty ships between 1941 and 1945, averaging 1.5 ships a day. Liberty Ships were quick simple cheap cargo ships needed for the mass transport of supplies. The ships were lightly armed but the SS Stephen Hopkins manged to fight a cargo raider to mutual destruction.
GANDJ TIL the Cayman Islands own $285.3B in U.S debt and ranks 7th in amount owned by foreign states.
xLb0 TIL Plant life could not exist without lightning.
NXwGQ TIL Louis B. Mayer created the AMPAS (which runs the Oscars) to curb unions, and created the awards ceremony because "I found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them... If I got them cups and awards they’d kill themselves to produce what I wanted."