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TIL the US Department of Defense withdrew its financial and logistical support for the TV series The Lieutenant (1963–1964) after its creater Gene Roddenberry pressed ahead with a plot titled "To Set It Right" in which a white and a black man find a common cause in their roles as Marines

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78Elx TIL that more than 2,500 Fairey Barracudas were delivered to the Royal Navy during the 1940s, but none were preserved. The Fleet Air Arm Museum has collected components since the 1970s- including wreckage- in order to rebuild one from original parts.
VNL0 TIL Christian evangelists produced a 23 episode TV show about superhero named “Bible-Man” who used the power of God to fight villains. It was so bad, there’s a theory that the show was deliberately created to discredit Christian proselytisation.
PyXO TIL that some top-selling cars and trucks are using special speakers to pipe sound files of a roaring engine into your vehicle’s cabin to make more efficient cars sound more powerful
Wk7Wo TIL, in Interstellar the depiction of a black hole required completely new CGI rendering software and was so accurate that it provided enough scientifical insight to publish three scientific papers
O8yL TIL that actor Keanu Reeves gave up most of his Matrix money ($35 million dollars) to the special effects team, turning them all into millionaires.