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TIL that Hannibal Buress hired a lookalike to attend the movie premiere for “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in his place for $500 and it worked for the most part

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QN4dM TIL about the NOAA Corps, the eighth federal uniformed service, alongside the six Military services and Public Health Service. It has just 321 enlisted officers, and operates 15 ships and 10 aircraft.
Elnd TIL of a NASA employee, George Aldrich, whose job is to sniff things to check if they have an unpleasant smell before they can be flown to space.
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