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TIL Gravity, Forrest Gump, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Inglorious Basterds are some of the movies astronauts can watch on the International Space Station.

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86ra TIL Hitler never visited a single concentration camp, nor did he ever talk about the killings taking place.
ne1rP TIL billions of wooden pallets are circulating through the world (2 billion in the United States alone). Some 80 percent of all U.S. commerce is carried on pallets. They’re so widespread they account for more than 46 percent of total U.S. hardwood lumber production.
dOrj TIL that the acoustic era (1877 to 1925) gave rise to the expression “put a sock in it”, which commemorates the common practice of placing a sock in the horn of the phonograph to muffle the sound for quieter listening.
OoE4a TIL there was a short lived British remake of the sitcom That 70s Show called Days Like These. Other than some name changes it was a word for word remake of the original.
0d6E5 TIL That Mary Shelly finished writing her masterpiece Frankenstein at the age of 19.