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TIL: In ‘Empire Strikes Back,’ the initial plan was to have Yoda played by a monkey rather than be a puppet/muppet

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N7n18 TIL Himalayan cliff bees in Nepal produce hallucinogenic honey know as "Mad Honey" and it's effects are comparable to magic mushrooms and LSD.
6ENQw TIL the Pentagon has twice as many toilet facilities needed for a building of its size because it had to conform with the Commonwealth of Virginia's racial segregation laws during construction.
Y7pAr TIL A Canadian makeup developer helped Crayola create "Colors of the World" crayons that are meant to accurately reflect human skin tones. He pared down the 40 shades he had created for Cover FX to 24 distinct colors that kids can use to draw themselves
e0aWb TIL in 1989, 2 million people joined hands and formed a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuanua. They were peacefully demonstrating for independence for their countries from the Soviet Union.
kJgN7 TIL $157K worth of stolen Magic: the Gathering and Dungeon & Dragons gaming cards were recovered after they were turned in by the party who bought them from the thieves for $4K. The cards had been stolen at Gen Con 2023 when 2 men simply walked out with a pallet that had 115 boxes of the cards on it