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TIL the famous quote from the movie Apollo 13 “Houston, we have a problem” was changed for creative purposes from the actual phrase said by astronaut Jack Swigert, “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”

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BgRAD TIL that Stephen King was so disappointed with Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, that he teamed up with director Mick Garris in 1997 to remake the film into a miniseries that is more true to the novel than the original film.
nea0o TIL Although rarely seen alive, in 2015 a Giant squid swam into a harbor near Tokyo on Christmas Eve. A diver jumped into the water to film and swam close to the squid for several minutes before it returned to the ocean.
Ab9o TIL that during the 2007 baseball season, the Los Angeles Dodgers added an infielder named Chin-Lung Hu. After Hu singled in his third at-bat in a game on September 23, Dodgers announcer Vin Scully said, “Shades of Abbott and Costello, I can finally say, ‘Hu is on first base.’”
JYR6k TIL one of the selling points for introducing the guillotine during the French Revolution was equality - commoners could now enjoy the comparatively quick and painless death of decapitation just like the nobility, and would no longer have to endure brutal deaths such as those caused by hanging.
1axeP TIL of the Finnish sport of wife carrying, in which male competitors race while carrying a female teammate through a special obstacle track. The Wife Carrying World Championships are held annually in Sonkajärvi, Finland, and the prize is the wife's weight in beer.