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TIL Glenn Close's father was a surgeon who worked in Africa with ebola, as well as a very tiny town in Wyoming.

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wLyk1 TIL in April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled. The incident has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." The heist was planned and carried out by elderly men.
40Wg TIL: Germany has a monument to the unknown deserter, honoring soldiers who refused to kill.
ep0Gn TIL The helicopters in Apocalypse Now (1979) belonged to The Philippines. During the famous “The Ride of the Valkyries” scene, the helicopters had to leave the set to go and fight insurgents who were positioned just 10 miles away.
D1l4e TIL that astronauts inside the ISS are not experiencing lack of gravity. At that altitude, gravity is about 90% that of the surface of Earth. The station is simply in an endless state of freefall which is what makes things float inside it.
Ooo6 TIL “Ghost in the Shell”’s Japanese title translates to “Mobile Armored Riot Police”; the English title was created in translation