Useless Fact of the Day

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"Ewok" was never spoken in the original trilogy.
The word "Ewok" is never uttered by a character in the original trilogy. Although, the species is identified in the script and closing credits.

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Depending on what movie you're watching, Yoda has a different number of toes.
In The Phantom Menace, Yoda has three toes. But in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith, he has four.

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David Lynch passed on directing Jedi.

Acclaimed film director David Lynch passed when George Lucas asked him to direct Return of the Jedi.


Noooooooooo!

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Before being rewritten as comic relief, Jar Jar was a mercenary who ultimately betrays Qui-Gon Jinn.

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Peter Cushing, who played Grand Moff Tarkin, found his costume boots so uncomfortable that he wore slippers during many of his scenes, and insisted his feet just never be in the shots.

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The starship that became the Blockade Runner seen at the beginning of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was the original design for the Millennium Falcon.

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None of these are facts. @Timshel_

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From the bend of your elbow to your wrist is how big your foot is.

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The length of both arms stretched out from the tip of your left middle finger to the tip of your right middle finger that is supposed to be how tall you are.

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MeganMoroz89 wrote: »

crystalsan726 wrote: »

The length of both arms stretched out from the tip of your left middle finger to the tip of your right middle finger that is supposed to be how tall you are.

I just tried this with a coworker and my mind has been blown. My arms are 5'3'', nothing makes sense anymore

LoL! I was pretty blown away when I first found out they were true to.

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Did you know that it is impossible to eat just one serving of brownie brittle? If you can you probably aren't human. As in you must be an alien. I'm pretty sure this is a fact.

I always only eat one serving of brownie brittle (I even weigh it out and bread a piece smaller if I need to), but I can also believe I am at least part alien.

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101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie.

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The bounty hunter Bossk’s clothing is a recycled spacesuit from Doctor Who.

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In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.

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1. In Thailand it is illegal to step on money.
2. In Britain it is illegal to handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances.
3. In Florida, it’s illegal to fart in a public place after 6pm on a Thursday.
4. In Hong Kong, there’s a law that allows a wife to kill her husband if she finds him cheating. However, she must kill him with her bare hands.

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“There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.”

-Carl Sagan

And at long last, Carl Sagan’s estimates are finally out of date. It’s not ~100 billion galaxies, but a number more like two trillion, and at last we know!

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2016/10/16/comments-of-the-week-131-from-seeing-the-big-bang-to-trillions-and-trillions/