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TIL: "Star wars: Return of the Jedi" crawl was the only one not to follow the four dot rule.

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XEbXk TIL I learned an American-born, Irish-raised, fascist, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw went to Germany to broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK in a British accent during WWII.
pYEL4 TIL in the Second Catiline Conspiracy: Cicero saved Rome's republic from a coup but had to go outside due process, leading to his exile. His exile was later lifted but his actions revealed the complete lack of confidence in the court system on which the New Republic of Sulla was allegedly based.
rNlPo TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started
kE8d TIL that fans continue to throw pizzas onto the roof of the house featured in “Breaking Bad” as Walter White’s house.
N7ZbE TIL that the scene in IT: Chapter Two and in the novel where a group of teens assault a homosexual man and his partner before tossing one of them over a bridge to his death was actually based on a true story. Stephen King borrowed details from the real life event, and added Pennywise to it.