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TIL Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Sioux Tribe and grew up on a reservation in South Dakota

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woZP7 TIL that the Niesen Stairway (service stairway for Niesenbahn funicular) is the longest staircase in the world with 11,674 steps. It is located on Mt. Niesen in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss Alps.
X06a8 TIL Mel Brooks was the executive producer of David Lynch's The Elephant Man, and gave him final cut, which technically he did not have.
mEaM TIL that Magneto was based on Malcolm X and Prof. X was based on Martin Luther King, Jr.
8apKX TIL a SwissAir flight was recording a documentary when an engine failed. The film crew was able to capture the calm and cool of the pilots while they turned the engine off, informed passengers, dumped fuel, ate chocolate and took a coffee break.
Y7VaW TIL that the Giotto spacecraft, whose aim was to study Halley's comet as it passed close to Earth in 1986, takes its name from the Italian painter Giotto di Bondone, who in 1305 depicted the star of Bethlehem as a comet in painting his Adoration of the Magi. Halley passed close to Earth in 1301.