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TIL NATO has aviation units that are collectively owned, funded, and operated by the nations in the alliance. No single nation owns these aircraft

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7rJ9x TIL during filming of the chestburster scene in Alien, Ridley Scott wasn't getting the reaction he wanted from the cast, so he privately told the SFX team to spray them with an enormous amount of blood during the next take, which caused some of the cast to become physically ill. They used that take.
woQXP TIL about the Boötes Void, an enormous, nearly empty region of space 330 million light-years in diameter. It is so desolate that if the Milky Way had been in its center, we wouldn't have known other galaxies existed until the 1960s.
8aWmG TIL World's largest printer of Bibles is in China, and is also the only company in China authorized to print Bibles.
wLVwo TIL that after America's Vanguard TV3 rocket exploded seconds after launch, Russia offered the US aid during a UN meeting under the "Soviet program of technical assistance to backwards nations"
6E9YJ TIL in 1974 the Green Bay Packers drafted Randall Woodfield, who later became the I-5 serial killer.