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TIL that Ewan McGregor’s brother, Colin McGregor was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and his call sign was “Obi-2”.

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5Yaw8 TIL that Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey Chocolate Co., was one of several historically significant people who almost boarded to Titanic.
ak7Z TIL that pioneer of astrogeology and founder of planetary science, Eugene Shoemaker, was a candidate for an Apollo moon mission but ruled out due to illness. After his death in 1997, he became the first person laid to rest on another celestial body, and the only human buried on the moon.
9Y9Nm TIL of the Yaghan, the people inhabiting the southernmost tip of the world. Despite extreme cold, they used to wear no clothing and instead lit many fires. This caused passing European ships to call their land the "land of fires".
p8Ma4 TIL bacon ice cream started as a joke in a 1973 Two Ronnie's sketch and was later made for real in 1982 as an April Fools joke. By 2005 however, chef Heston Blumenthal would be serving bacon ice cream at his 3 Michelin star restaurant, the Fat Duck - the #1 restaurant in the world at the time.
LQBk9 TIL that humans can produce light through bioluminescence, but it's usually too faint for our eyes to detect.