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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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a8n89 TIL Kathy, the dolphin that played Flipper, commited suicide in retirement .
N7Z4M TIL that double-barreled bolt action rifles exist. They have two triggers, one for each barrel. With just one movement of the bolt, both spent cartridges come out and fresh ones are loaded in.
kOKD1 TIL Magpies in Australia are not related in anyway to Magpies in the rest of the world.
GAyKJ TIL: That the Beijing Weather Modification Office were enlisted by the Chinese government to ensure that the 2008 Summer Olympics were free of rain, by breaking up clouds headed towards the capital and forcing them to drop rain on outlying areas instead.
8am74 TIL that even though Jupiter is a massive planet, a day on Jupiter only lasts about 5 hours because it's rotating at 28,000 MPH. By comparison, Earth rotates at only 1,000 MPH.