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TIL that thanks to 3D printing, NASA can basically “email” tools to astronauts

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O4PY TIL that the actor who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction (the guy Vincent accidentally shoots in the car) is the voice of Hermes the Jamaican Bureaucrat on Futurama.
jNopE TIL that the boots worn by the actors portraying American soldiers in Saving Private Ryan were made by the same company that supplied boots for American soldiers during the Second World War.
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