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TIL that astronaut helmets have a patch of Velcro inside of them so astronauts have a way to scratch their noses.

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GAVoG TIL a Chinese actor was cancelled in 2021 after the background of one of his photos taken in 2018 was identified as the office area of the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines Japanese war criminals
AkdB TIL the Nazis also made a film called “Titanic”. It was an anti-British propaganda piece about the famous shipwreck. The RAF bombed the theater it was to have premiered in and later sunk the ship it was filmed on, resulting 3x the deaths as the Titanic.
VrR0 TIL when Einstein was told of the publication of a book entitled, ‘100 Authors Against Einstein’, he replied: “Why one hundred? If I were wrong, one would have been enough.”
EgJGP TIL there are less than 10 thousand people living in the United States who are worth $100 million or more. That's less than 0.0029% of the population.
EgEd7 TIL 41 years ago, today, 3 people died on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); under the negligent direction of John Landis, after he ordered a helicopter's tail-rotor directly over staged FX explosives. Bringing down the copter, decapitating two and crushing the other to death.