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TIL “disc” and “disk” are two distinct terms with different meanings (discs are optical media, disks are magnetic media)

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jvDM TIL that the reason Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back started with Luke being attacked by a Wampa is because Mark Hamill had been in a car crash at the end of filming of A New Hope which caused damage to his face. Lucas wanted to justify Mark’s new look
J1OwB TIL Allodoxaphobia is the name for fear of other people’s opinions.
ZdDD TIL Pandas are called “cat bears” in China
RGd9 TIL the stunt coordinator of Deliverance felt a canoe scene with a dummy in it looked too phony. After reshooting the scene with himself in the canoe, Burt Reynolds, coughing up water and nursing a broken coccyx, asked how the scene looked. The director responded, “like a canoe with a dummy in it.”
717 TIL that 99% of Estonians have blue eyes.