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TIL 10 Cloverfield Lane was adapted from a script called The Cellar that was unrelated to the movie Cloverfield.

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5V57B TIL in 1954, Jim Lovell lost his navigation systems while flying at night over the Sea of Japan. He was able to locate his carrier using the bioluminescence of dinoflagellates in its wake and successfully land. He would later go on to land the damaged Apollo 13 capsule.
x67nb TIL, Tribune, Kansas, population 772, is the fifth largest city by area in the US, and largest in the continental US. Tribune and Greeley county operate as one government entity.
mmEM TIL that an atomic bomb cameraman ripped his safety goggles a split second before the bomb exploded. He immediately covered his eyes with his hand and saw his hand’s bones through his closed eyelids just like in an X-ray.
R7P48 TIL That Makoto Iwamatsu (Mako), voice actor for Iroh in Avatar the Last Airbender, was born in Kobe Japan, lived through the bombings of WWII, then later moved to the United States and joined the US Military at the age of 17.
BPJk TIL: Angeline Jolie once hired a hitman to murder her so she would have less guilt to burden her family with. The hitman asked her to reconsider her decision for a month - to which she then changed her mind.