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TIL that Steven Spielberg couldn't find an airport that would allow him to film 'The Terminal', so he shot it instead in a hangar in a classified complex once used to build the B1-B bomber.

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LQrlV TIL at the height of operations during the Berlin airlift, one plane reached West Berlin every thirty seconds. The C-47s and C-54s together flew over 92,000,000 miles (148,000,000 km) in the process, almost the distance from Earth to the Sun.
P15dE TIL The Doom Slayer and Isabelle are canonically married
BrELr TIL It was unknown who "Rosie the Riveter" was based on until Geraldine Doyle claimed that it was her in 1994. It was widely believed to be true until James Kimble found the original photograph with the name Naomi Parker in the caption in 2015.
Y7elG TIL in Japan they used to keep time so that there was always 6 hours of night and 6 hours of day, so an “hour” changed length in winter and summer
VKl0 TIL DLP projectors use up to 8 million hinged microscopic mirrors that can each move independently up to 10,000 times per second!