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TIL George Lucas once said, “People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.”

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E1Kg7 TIL that the Postal Service once printed 3 billion stamps featuring the Statue of Liberty, before realizing that the picture was actually of the Las Vegas replica
BrXKr TIL that if the atom was the size of the observable universe, then the theoretical ‘string’ in string theory would be the size of a tree.
jNxMa TIL European Court of Human Rights finds that accusing people on social media of sexual crimes without proof or conviction is an Article 8 violation and that European states have a duty to take action against it.
QNBZe TIL that Scientologists advocate "silent birth," in which everyone attending a birth avoids speaking as much as possible, because "any words spoken can have an abberrative effect on the mother and child"
GANYj TIL the Welsh alphabet contains double letters like ch, dd, ff, ng, ll, ph, rh, and th.