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TIL NASA has named Gattaca as the most accurate science fiction film of all time

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5VO5p TIL the historian meridian marker In Greenwich is off by about 100 meters because they looked "straight up" at stars, but to find "straight up" you use a weight to find "straight down", and the uneven mass of the Earth means that it doesn't point to the exact center of the Earth
R714 TIL that Muslim astronauts have struggled with the issue of how to pray from space. When orbiting the Earth, it’s impossible to pray facing Mecca because its direction constantly changes.
9YpJG TIL that after gay Vietnam War veteran Leonard Matlovich died, his epitaph said this: ''When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.''
XEb5X TIL Christopher Nolan will reportedly receive 20 percent of Tenet‘s first dollar gross, meaning he gets a percentage of the box office revenue beginning with the film’s release rather than the profit.
wLQr7 TIL a Texas man nearly died after being bitten by a rattlesnake that he decapitated with a shovel. The snake's head bit down on his hand, 10 minutes after being removed from its body, after he reached down to move it with a stick.