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TIL Louis Armstrong worked for a Jewish family as a child, who eventually took him in and saw him as their own son after his father left the family.

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l7Oaa TIL in 1936, 20 year old Orson Welles directed an entirely African American cast of Macbeth set in the Caribbean in which Haitian vodou replaced Scottish witchcraft. The play was produced by the Federal Theatre Project which was responsible for creating jobs in the arts during the Depression.
D18jg TIL Apollo 12 was hit by lightning twice within a minute of launch, knocking out the command module instruments, lighting up nearly every warning light on the control panel and garbling the telemetry to mission control. Earlier training simulating such a failure allowed them to restore power.
d8BXQ TIL in the film Tomorrow Is Forever, child actress Natalie Wood was unable to cry on cue, until her mother tore a butterfly to pieces in front of her to ensure she would sob. Her co-star, Orson Welles, called Wood a born professional, "so good, she was terrifying."
dwd7 TIL that the Macrocilix maia moth confuses predators with wing patterns that mimic two flies eating bird shit. It even releases a pungent odor to drive home the deception.
ne11W TIL that Buzz Aldrin was the first man to urinate on the moon.