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TIL that no special effects were used to achieve zero gravity in the movie “Apollo 13”. Through 612 flight parabolic, approximately 4 hours was spent filming on board NASA’s “Vomit Comet” The KC-135, an aircraft designed to train astronauts for the weightlessness of space.

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OolJY TIL: Minesweeper's theme was so controversial in some countries that Microsoft was forced to replace the mines with flowers in some locations and rebrand it as "Flower Garden". Link
Y7vy7 TIL that the "mid-/trans-atlantic accent" in old Hollywood movies is largely a myth.
D5lg TIL “Bookkeeper” and “bookkeeping” are the only words in the English language with three consecutive sets of double letters without hyphens, while “Subbookkeeper” is the only word found in an English language dictionary with four pairs of double letters in a row.
rNJZy TIL a common answer to "how are you?" in French is "Ça roule ma poule" which translates to "it rolls my chicken"
XWXD TIL that 91 volcanos have recently been discovered under the Antarctic ice sheet bringing the total to 138. It is likely the most dense volcanic region on the planet.