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TIL That The Cillian in Cillian Murphy Is Pronounced Like The Beer, Killian

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b95x0 TIL that there were only three people in the United States were qualified to pack the parachutes for the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. Their skills were deemed so vital that they couldn't ride in the same car together as an accident would cripple the space programme.
xeO0 TIL that the sounds of the TIE fighters in star wars were a combo of an elephant call and a car driving on wet pavement
78Z87 TIL R2D2 is known as "Little Arthur", or "Arturito" due to the similarities in pronunciation. Some Spanish released subtitled films even have him captioned as Arturito.
grWMA TIL Zoo´s have an instant kill list in case of a mass escape. At the top of the list is the Chimpanzee, because they are known to hunt other primates.
79YL TIL Joseph Christopher (serial killer who murdered 12+) tried to check himself into a psychiatric center just weeks before he began his murder spree