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TIL During the 1st season of ‘Fresh Prince…’ Will Smith memorized the lines of EVERYONE in the cast. If you go back and watch closely, see him lip synching the lines of whomever was speaking in a scene.

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WkWE9 TIL of an attempted plane bombing in 1985 where the bomb went off an hour early, while still in the airport. The perpetrators did not realize that Japan does not observe daylight saving time, so the bomb went off before it made in onboard.
Q9ya TIL In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, invested in a geospatial data visualization company named Keyhole, which was sold to Google in 2004 and later became the basis for Google Earth.
PGAE TIL that astronaut Steven Swanson took DVDs of Firefly and Serenity to the International Space Station, where they permanently reside as entertainment for the crew.
0dW61 TIL the Confederacy attacked Vermont
Xner TIL that the sons of Hitler’s nephew who fought for the US all agreed that they would never marry or have children in order to kill Hitler’s bloodline.