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TIL Jerry Ross was the first human to be launched into space seven times, a world record that Ross now shares with one other NASA astronaut

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vBMB TIL the population of Jews in the world falls within the margin of error in the Chinese census
BrMoL TIL George Lucas originally wanted to make an updated Flash Gordon movie, but no one took him seriously and he couldn't obtain the rights, so he made Star Wars instead.
9YV5D TIL closed captions and subtitles are different. Closed captions assume that watchers can't hear anything, therefore describing background noises, music and other audio cues that need discribing, while subtitles are assuming that the watchers can hear, and just says what the characters are saying.
4kVdb TIL Stalin secretly helped write Poland's 1952 constitution
NX7XE TIL that the movie Twelve O'Clock High (1949), which features real footage of bomber combat from WWII, is still used today by military academies to teach principles of organizational leadership.