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TIL the medic that appears at the end of the movie "Captain Phillips" was a real corpsman and improvised the scene with Tom Hanks. Some of her shipmates were resentful of the attention she got and gave her a hard time during her deployment, causing her to regret appearing in the film.

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ykJJ TIL an impossible staircase was built inside a chapel in New Mexico in 1878 by what people thought was St. Joseph himself and it’s still there today
e0PG5 TIL Transatlantic aviators refer to the longitude of 30W as the Molson-Guinness Line because that is where aircraft move from the Irish to the Canadian air traffic system and vice versa, Molson being a Canadian beer and Guinness being an Irish one. It is even marked on charts.
69Kgm TIL that during broad daylight, the planet Venus appeared in the sky above Abraham Lincoln's inauguration; March 4th, 1865
9g5B TIL the shortest man and the longest penis in the world are only 2 inch apart
RGx9 TIL Two US Soldiers were killed by North Korea, while trying to trim down a tree that obscured their view. 3 days later, a task force of 813 troops entered Korea and chopped it down.