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TIL Nasa got the idea of a rocket countdown from a 1929 Fritz Lang Film.

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X0GY8 TIL About 130 million adults in the U.S. — half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 — have low literacy skills
epO7k TIL Samwise's (Sean Astin) dad is Gomez Addams (John Astin)
aM7M TIL There is a cruise ship named “The World” – Its residents permanently live there as it travels the globe.
GYPO1 TIL In WWII British tanks, one man's job was to handle the radio, hull machine gun, and brewing tea whenever there was an opportunity.
NxdN TIL that Saturn’s moon Titan has an unexplained anomaly in its atmospheric composition that is consistent with earlier predictions about life there