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TIL Quentin Tarantino approached Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love to play “Lance” and “Jody” in the movie Pulp Fiction but they declined

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QNkbM TIL the bomb meant air India flight 301 In the 80s detonated early, killing two baggage handlers, because perpetrators failed to take into account that Japan does not observe daylight saving time
ZpGjB TIL that if Apollo 11 had failed to land on the Moon, Apollo 12 was prepared to launch just 2 months later. However, with the success of Apollo 11, the time between launches was extended to 4 months with Apollo 12 landing on the moon November 19, 1969.
0wyK5 TIL during the Chinese Civil War, Stalin had advised a coalition government between CPC-KMT in postwar China, but the proposal was rejected by Mao.
d8nKd TIL that Boeing made a top secret spy plane named the "Bird of Prey" after the Klingon starship in "Star Trek"
0wQwj TIL a NASA-funded research project led to a dolphin being given LSD, and sexual encounters between the dolphin and the scientist