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TIL the crew of 'Return of the Jedi' mocked the character design of Admiral Ackbar, deeming it too ugly. Director Richard Marquand refused to alter it, saying, "I think it's good to tell kids that good people aren't necessarily good looking people and that bad people aren't necessarily ugly people."
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Submitted June 03, 2019 at 07:19PM by szekeres81
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TIL that during a speech, the elderly former slave and abolitionist Sojourner Truth was accused by a man in the crowd of not being a female, to which she responded by exposing and shaking a withered breast at him and asked: "Want a suck?"
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Submitted June 03, 2019 at 11:30AM by BoosherCacow
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TIL mythological smith gods, such as Hephaestus, Weyland, Svarog, Ptah, etc., are often depicted as crippled or deformed. This is now believed to be from constant exposure to arsenic, which was added to copper to make bronze.
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Submitted June 03, 2019 at 07:25PM by marmorset
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TIL Mexico City's government was so impressed by the Day of the Dead parade in the film Spectre (2015) that they recreated the event for locals and tourists in 2016; 250k people attended the event and it has been annually ongoing ever since.
http://bit.ly/2WisuLr

Submitted June 03, 2019 at 07:48PM by Kirbyderby
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TIL during WW2, Ernest Hemingway led a small Militia in a village outside Paris, and this caused him to be brought up on formal charges for violating the Geneva Convention "because a correspondent is not supposed to lead troops, even if he does it well."
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Submitted June 03, 2019 at 06:33PM by JakeCameraAction
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TIL about a species of human that grew no larger than a modern 3-year-old child and lived on a remote island in Indonesia 18,000 years ago. These humans lived alongside Homo sapiens. They manufactured sophisticated stone tools, hunted elephants, and more, all with a brain only 1/3 the size of ours.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 01:06AM by idcandidk
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TIL while bored during his work with the Manhattan Project Richard Feynman would amuse himself by picking the locks of his colleagues confidential file cabinets and placing prank notes, his colleagues believed a spy had infiltrated the project.
http://bit.ly/1K8wJha

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 01:08AM by Tuxeedo
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TIL President Coolidge and his wife had a pet raccoon named Rebecca who lived with them in the White House. Rebecca was supposed to be eaten for 1926 Thanksgiving dinner, but they adopted her instead.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 03:31AM by ADHDspartan
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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger was not too keen on playing the Terminator in the 1984 film "The Terminator". He wanted to play Kyle Reese, the good guy. When asked about his casting as Terminator, he said "Oh some shit movie I'm doing" and its "Low profile" enough to not damage his career.
http://bit.ly/1g49l6u

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 02:12PM by sersleepsalot1
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TIL tooth enamel is harder than steel. It's composed of mineralised calcium phosphate, which is the single hardest substance any living being can produce. Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster's shell or a rhino's horn.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 02:54PM by YMF47
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TIL for millennia Autism and other sudden disabilities was explained by the Changeling folklore. A fairy or demon would steal a normal baby and replace them with their own child in disguise. The Changeling would cry, scream, not display social behavior, or just become completely unresponsive.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 01:16PM by reachling
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TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger beat O.J. Simpson for the role of the Terminator because Simpson wasn't "menacing" enough to play a killer.
http://bit.ly/2W9r8h3

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 05:44PM by CreativePhilosopher
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TIL In the US you generally buy a cemetery spot for life and not just rent it until you stop renewing it anymore as is custom in many other other parts of the world
https://n.pr/31bvw35

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 04:12PM by Pesty-knight_ESBCKTA
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TIL the screaming at Beatles concerts was so loud that no one could hear them play—not even the Beatles themselves. It led them to stop playing live performances entirely, retreat to the studio, and ultimately create albums like Sgt. Pepper with no concern for performing any of the songs live.
http://bit.ly/1CRZDwO

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 06:29PM by Pupikal
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TIL: During the time of the Great Depression, a banker convinced struggling families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares which traded at $19. Later, the town became the single richest town per capita in the US with at least 67 millionaires.
http://bit.ly/2EOHdmn

Submitted June 04, 2019 at 07:55PM by Hafnium67
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TIL that after 9/11, Clear Channel Communications (which is now iHeartRadio) sent out a list of 165 songs they heavily discouraged playing, including the entire discography for Rage Against The Machine.
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Submitted June 04, 2019 at 06:04PM by BurntRussian
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