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TIL that the Soviets landed a spacecraft on Venus and took pictures of the surface…4 times!

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BrRDL TIL James Cameron DIDN'T quit truck driving to explore his artistic side, He drove trucks to fund it.
6DG8 TIL Channing Tatum earned $400 for dancing and playing a bartender in Ricky Martin’s ‘She Bangs’ music video.
RYVw TIL an American WWII fighter pilot tried to open fire on a Japanese spy plane only to find his guns were jammed. So he used his propeller as a giant buzzsaw and chopped the tail off the enemy plane.
YpoP TIL that several airlines who aired the movie “Rain Man” deleted the sequence in which Raymond reels off statistics on airline accidents, except for Quantas, who even promoted one of the movie’s writers to first class once when he traveled on their airline.
mxp7v TIL Oxana Malaya wad abandoned by her alcoholic parents at age 2, and for the next 5 years lived with a pack of dogs. At 7 years old, she couldn't speak, walked on all fours and behaved like a dog in every way