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8. Little Known Fact: If you watch any of the Star Wars trilogy, you might notice the majority of Vader’s Stormtroopers are actually left-handed. Actually, they’re left-handed by necessity. Their guns—which were designed based on real guns—were created with the magazine on the left side. Because the magazine was on the left side, the originally right-handed Stormtroopers would whack themselves in the chest every time they held their guns. Therefore, they had to use their left hands to carry the guns, which made them appear left-handed.

96. Did You Know: Luke’s line “I can’t see a thing in this helmet” wasn’t part of the script? It was just a passing comment Mark Hamill made to Harrison Ford after he thought the take had been completed. Lucas liked it though, and it was kept in.

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