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TIL that when Sebastian Shaw, the face of Darth Vader, showed up on the set of Return of the Jedi, Ian McDiarmid (aka Emperor Palpatine), who was an old friend, asked him what he was doing there. His response: “I don’t know, dear boy, I think it’s something to do with science-fiction.”

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VB4OG TIL the latitudes 30° north and south of the equator are called Horse Latitudes because, back in the day, sailing ships would sometimes threw horses overboard in the sea to conserve water when their ships would stay still for upto weeks in the high-pressure belts with almost no wind activity.
VBB98 TIL that SNL called Phil Hartman "The Glue" because his professionalism and comedy skills held together so many sketches
bLWE TIL that Isaac Asimov once said “I can’t help but feel that the Jews didn’t really have the right to appropriate a territory (Israel) only because 2000 years ago, people they consider their ancestors, were living there.”
gOyX TIL when L. Ron Hubbard showed off Scientology’s first “clear” member (the highest level of achievement with skills that included perfect memory), the woman couldn’t even recall what color tie Hubbard was wearing
Xb5P TIL a man proposing to his girlfriend at a restaurant was interrupted by a robber who broke into the restaurant. He put the robber in a chokehold when he tried to flee, knocking him out. Then the man went back to the original task at hand and proposed to his girlfriend. No big deal.