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TIL The film Predator was originally written in responese to Rocky movies after people joked he was running out of people to box and would have to fight an alien next

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R71o6 TIL Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune all have ring systems
6EJwY TIL that the first non-stop UK to Canada flights were RAF Canberras carrying BBC recordings of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, so that Canadians were able to watch it the same day it happened.
XEynX TIL Six nylon American flags have been left on the Moon. They were purchased from a government catalogue and not designed to handle the harsh conditions of Space. Some flags are still standing. It is thought that the Apollo 11 flag fell over after they left the moon.
5YPaB TIL Carl Sagan's team wanted to include the Beatles song "Here Comes the Sun" on the Voyager Golden Records (discs containing greetings in 60 languages, music and sounds from Earth aboard both Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977), but the record company EMI, which held the copyrights, declined.
ePGn TIL in 2009 three police officers earned over $300,000 a year in Clarkstown NY, one of the safest towns in the country.