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TIL Steve McQueen’s infidelity saved his life. He was supposed to attend the dinner party where the Manson family murdered Sharon Tate and others, but skipped it after he “ran into a chickie”.

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N7446 TIL Steinway & Sons (1853) pianos are handcrafted and take a year to build. The company's 600,000th piano was built in 2015 with an inlaid Fibonacci design in the lid. It is valued at $2.4 million.
kaBd TIL Greedo’s lines in Episode IV aren’t unintelligible nonsense: he’s actually speaking a form of a language called Quechua, which has almost 9 million native speakers
AOA7 TIL NASA’s Eagleworks lab is currently running a real warp drive experiment for proof of concept. The location of the facility is the same one that was built for the Apollo moon program
ZPkQ TIL Han Solo is the only non-Jedi/Sith in the entire original trilogy to ever use a lightsaber when he cuts open the tauntaun’s belly.
P186O TIL: Cryonics actually exists, but works only on smaller animals