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TIL Over 14,000 high-resolution photos from Apollo missions 7 to 17 have been uploaded to Flickr by a group of enthusiasts, scanned from the original astronauts' camera film magazines.

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Oor4R TIL that the weightless scenes in the movie Apollo 13 were real. The space capsule set was built inside a cargo plane that would freefall for about 20 seconds at a time, simulating being in orbit. The plane would then climb back up to film the next scene.
167LV TIL that Robert Davi (Jake Fratelli from the Goonies) was a headliner in Vegas singing Sinatra classics and released his own album.
OolXX TIL that beige is the average color of the universe, and that it’s known as ‘Cosmic Latte’.
Z8OmR TIL Around one in four Labradors apparently have a gene variant that leaves them feeling constantly hungry with no 'off-switch' when they're full.
M7aW TIL A woman from England can see 99 million more colours than the rest of the worlds population.