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TIL the first (Russian) spacewalk encountered problems leading to reentry deep in Siberia, where the astronauts had to camp in the reentry module overnight to keep bears and wolves at bay.

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ed9L TIL Spielberg wrote a sequel to E.T. in which Elliot receives a radio signal that leads him to believe E.T. is back. Unbeknownst to him the signal comes from an evil alien race that landed on Earth after picking up E.T.’s “phone home” distress call. He is then kidnapped and tortured.
yeZv TIL of Rachel Hoffman, a 23-y.o. college grad who was murdered in a drug sting gone wrong. After being caught with 5 oz. of weed & 4 ecstasy pills, she was forced to try buying $13k of coke, ecstasy, & a gun.
LvDm TIL the Rolling Stone review for Abbey Road said, “Surely they must have enough talent and intelligence to do better than this,” calling songs on it “so heavily overproduced that they are hard to listen to.” It was later listed #14 on Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums list.
9YrPp TIL of Jolabokaflod, a Christmas Eve tradition in Iceland where friends and family get together to exchange books and then they all read them together while eating chocolate and drinking cocoa.
lZJN TIL the X-Files episode ‘Home’ which was about a murderous inbred family was loosely based on a story from Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography where a family introduced him to their quadruple amputee son by pulling him out from under a bed after which he “flopp[ed] around” while they sang and danced.