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TIL Saudi Arabia accidentally printed thousands of textbooks containing this image of Yoda sitting next to King Faisal while he signed the 1945 UN charter

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oRw7r TIL Neil Diamond-Barbra Streisand hit You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore started as theme song to 1977 TV soap opera spoof All That Glitters. The show was retooled by creator Norman Lear-women are in charge, men are the sex objects-and another song used but Diamond expanded and recorded the original
ORDa TIL that in 1835 the American newspaper “The Sun” published several articles about the discovery of life and civilization on the Moon. The articles described bison, goats, unicorns, bipedal tail-less beavers and bat-like winged humanoids living there who built temples
b9Bo7 TIL that when Niels Bohr escaped from Denmark, he was smuggled out in the bomb bay of a Mosquito bomber. Because he didn't wear his helmet, he didn't hear the pilot instructing him to put on his mask, causing him to pass out from oxygen starvation for most of the flight.
4w8g TIL that London has so many trees that it can be classified as a forest
8eJX4 TIL: Amniotic fluid dries into a fern pattern on a slide on its own without anything added to it