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TIL that we are further away from the movie Apollo 13 (1995) than the movie was from the actual event (1970).

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ykMX TIL, Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath, lost the ends of two of his fretting fingers at the age of 17. He fashioned his own prosthetics and went on to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
yQJOX TIL that Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time, selling over a 180 Million copies since its 2011 release.
mxgBp TIL that the world's longest domestic flight (and the world's longest flight by distance) is a 15728 km flight between Paris and the city of Papeete in the Pacific territory of French Polynesia, which takes between 16-17 hours
R7N4w TIL about Colorado's "Make-my-day law" that expanded on home defense laws to make it harder to prosecute home owners for killing intruders.
B9JW TIL of the Forty Elephants, or Forty Thieves; an all-female shoplifting ring that operated in London from the 1870s to the 1950s.