Post * PYVRO — Curious Curator

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TIL Jason David Frank filmed a pilot that would eventually become VR Troopers called "Cybertron."

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rNVwy TIL that there were more Commonwealth (British and Canadian) than American troops that landed on the beaches at Normandy on D-Day

nWjOY TIL that Earth is the only known place in our solar system where fire occurs and no known exoplanets have oxygen enough to allow fire.

xjwg TIL that the tumbling tumbleweed (Kali tragus), a long standing symbol of the lonely American West, is actually a foreign introduced species from Asia commonly called ‘Russian thistle’.

VZY4 TIL only 3 films have swept the “Big Five” Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay: It Happened One Night (1934), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), and The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

E15mV TIL that SR-71 Blackbird ,the fastest manned aircraft ever doesn't have a fuel tank ,the fuel is stored in the body of the aircraft itself (for savin weight) ,the body has seams and gaps so the fuel leaks while it isn't flying. The engineers expect the pressure at higher altitudes to close the gaps.