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TIL NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used to run a female beauty pageant, the winner of which was crowned ‘Miss Guided Missile’

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x6BOB TIL that in 1980 only 136 prints of The Empire Strikes Back in 70mm were produced. These also featured magnetic Six-Track Dolby Stereo sound.
o0mA TIL Peter Sellers tried to change his will just hours before he died to prevent his entire fortune passing to his estranged fourth wife
ldON TIL learned that studio execs balked when Jim Carrey asked for $400,000 for Dumb and Dumber. Then Ace Ventura: Pet Detective came out and the studio had to pay Carrey $7 million to do the movie!
4J1w TIL that Red Rain fell in Kerala India and when examined it contained red cells from an unknown origin.
wLbj1 TIL two tribes of chimpanzees were observed to have engaged in a four year civil war. The war consisted of separatists from an existing chimp tribe. The chimps engaged in cannibalism & they fought over territorial gains. The result ended in the complete decimation of the separatists chimpanzees.