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TIL James Earl Jones demanded David Prowse receive sole credit for portraying Darth Vader believing that his voice was 'just special effects'

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VBL58 TIL Eminem is an Oscar winner
XKvD TIL the first and last British soldiers that died in WWI are, by coincidence, buried 15 feet away from each other.
pw4Q TIL cows “moo” in different accents based on their region.
W7RMd TIL about the White Revolution, a sweeping -- and mostly successful -- program to modernize Iran. One element of it ended feudalism and gave farms to the farmers, but many of them ended up worse off than they were under feudalism. This caused a domino effect that led to the Islamic Revolution.
GL15 TIL Phyllis (from The Office US) was once an NFL cheerleader and a burlesque dancer.