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The Czech Republic (a country with no official religion) has over 15,000 people who religiously identify as a Jedi Knight. That's roughly 0.15 of the population.
The English town of Easington has the highest percentage of white residents in England and also the UK's lowest population of Jedi Knights.
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177,000 residents in the UK identify their religion as "Jedi Knight".
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In the 2011 UK Census, nearly 177,000 people identified their religion as ‘Jedi Knight’.
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George Lucas sued a musical group for using the name “Jedi Knights”. Lucas only caught wind of said Knights in the media when they unjustly tried to sue the Prodigy.
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According to a 2011 census, "Jedi Knight" is the fourth most identified religion in England and Wales.
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Some of Tom Hardy's more recent films include The Dark Knight Rises, Lawless, Locke, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Revenant, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Venom, set to release in 2018.
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George Lucas based the Jedis in Star Wars on the Knights Templar, in the original script he called them the ‘Jedi-Templars'.
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There are 176,632 Jedi Knights in the UK according to the 2011 census
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John Stears, the Academy Award-winning special effects expert who created Bond's Aston Martin DB5, Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder, the Jedi Knights' lightsabers, and R2-D2 and C-3PO, also raised cattle and bred Borzoi show dogs on an estate in England he eventually sold to Ozzy Osbourne.
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Early notes from George Lucas show that Yoda was originally named Buffy. The notes also show that Luke was to become "the human Buffy" and that Buffy would say to Luke: "Skywalker. Skywalker. And why do you come to walk my sky, with the sword of a Jedi knight? ... I remember another Skywalker."
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That, in 2001, New Zealand had more self-identified Jedi Knights than Buddhists, Baptists, Mormons, Hindus, and Ratana Christians.
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In 2001, hundreds of thousands of people put their religion as Jedi Knight causing it to be the fourth biggest relgion in England and Wales, and the 2nd biggest in New Zealand.
Jerec, the villain from Jedi Knight Dark Forces II (1997) is from the same eyeless species (the Miraluka) as Visas Marr, a character in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (2004) - source
During the 2011 British census, 176,632 respondents professed to being "Jedi Knight" on the religion question.
