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TIL after the first test preview of Apollo 13 (a film firmly based on true events) one comment card indicated the film had a typical “Hollywood ending” and that the crew would’ve never survived in real life.

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QJ1da TIL from 1860 to 1916, the British military required all soldiers to have a moustache because of the "authority" it imparted.
L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”
64y7 TIL Physicians have a suicide rate nearly 100% above average
d8vQ TIL that the earliest known surviving pair of cloth socks was designed for sandals.
Zx1a TIL the North Korean government is one of the largest counterfeiters of U.S. $50 and $100-dollar bills, dubbed “superdollars,” as they are so close to the real thing that they’ve been referred to as “just U.S dollars not made by the U.S. government.”