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TIL Duncan Jones’ “Moon” is the first film in a planned trilogy

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Brg7r TIL that at the funeral of General Lamarque, which plays a central role in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables and was the catalyst of the unsuccessful 1832 June Rebellion, the Marquis de Lafayette was actually a pallbearer and even tried to talk the crowd down before it got out of hand.
woYE TIL that Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis was averted by the action of a single Soviet officer.
Ooyxg TIL Rev. Martin Luther King had really bad handwriting, and after his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" was smuggled out of jail on scraps of paper, his deputy Wyatt Tee Walker typed it up because he was the only one who could read it
yVjWa TIL the first scientific article on the greenhouse effect was published back in 1856, 165 years ago! The article was written by a female scientist - Eunice Newton Foote
0w6VM TIL Congress wanted to replace the $1 bill. A report by congressional auditors claims that replacing dollar bills with dollar coins could save taxpayers $4.4 billion over 30 years. The coins last for decades, but the bills wear out and replaced every 4 or 5 years. Most Americans oppose the idea.