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TIL Russian Salyut Spacecraft carried working machine guns

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YPZr TIL Christopher Walken was a lion tamer as a teenager and applied for the position because, “I’ve always loved cats.”
MaV0 TIL The FBI has almost every gun ever manufactured to use as reference to solve crimes.
9XNG TIL the first ever 3D movie was The Power Of Love, a silent film released in 1922. It was also the first film to have an alternative ending, and the viewer could choose between the happy and sad endings (both shot in 2D) by closing one eye or the other.
QNnPa TIL "In 1956, the students of the Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre arts voted two actors as the least likely to succeed: two friends, Gene Hackman (who had the lowest grades at that point in the history of the school) and Dustin Hoffmann. Both went on to win two Oscars each
6pr8 TIL that payed, a common misspelling of paid, is an actual word that means an act of sealing the deck or seams of wooden ships with pitch to prevent water leakage. This makes it an atomic typo(link in comments)