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TIL Star Wars was originally called "The Adventures of Luke Skywalker As Taken From The Journal Of The Whills Saga # I: The Star Wars".

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xVrE1 TIL that the flag of West Virginia is the only US State flag with crossed rifles, meant to illustrate the importance of the state's fight for liberty during the Civil War.
5YxK9 TIL that Benjamin Franklin's many inventions include the flexible urinary catheter, odometer and swimming fins. He never got parents and wrote, “we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
rNpdW TIL An encrypted copy of Microsoft Bob was included on the Windows XP CD with the intention of making it take longer to download an illegal copy of the disc image
LkaKv TIL the average house in Japan depreciates to almost ¥0 after 25 years.
6ERj7 TIL Not only did Fiat make a Gucci Edition 500C, but there have been special Gucci edition cars produced by Cadillac, Jaguar, Lincoln, and even a Gucci AMC Hornet.