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TIL; The area code for the International Space Station phone is a Houston area code, 281.

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pGPQ Today I learned that Gavin Free of Youtube’s TheSlowMoGuys was the Slow Motion Cinematographer for Hot Fuzz, the Red vs. Blue Series, and Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
dDWME TIL That it would require a minimum of 500 people to re-populate the earth.
epOan TIL according to actor Rick Moranis, in the original script for the 1987 film Spaceballs, the description of Dark Helmet was that the whole costume was one gigantic helmet. Then it got scaled back to just an exaggerated version of the Darth Vader helmet.
jvRa TIL the Canadian government established one of the most northern settlements in the world by tricking 8 families into living there and then not allowing them to leave.
NjEe TIL The band Creedence Clearwater Revival were all from San Francisco and had never even visited Louisiana or the Bayou. Their accents were simply exaggerated for effect.