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TIL the zero-gravity scenes in Apollo 13 are actually real. The crew filmed 4 hours of material in 612 parabola flights.

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5VPDn TIL of Joice Heth who, in 1835, was sold to PT Barnum and took on tour and displayed as the 161-year-old nurse of George Washington
4Xv6o TIL about the 1936 built Russian computer that ran on water and solved partial differential equations.
0E1N TIL George R.R. Martin’s idea for Game of Thrones began with his pet turtles. He said, “I decided they were all knights and kings…and I made up stories about how they killed each other and betrayed each other and fought for the kingdom. So, Game of Thrones, actually began with turtles.”
Xxx6 TIL of Brandolini’s Law AKA the Bullshit asymmetry principle: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
yVGyv TIL the U.S. is the island nation of Fiji's largest trading partner. Fiji's #1 export to the U.S.: water