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TIL "The China Syndrome" film about a nuclear reactor meltdown was released just 12 days before the Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown catapulting the film into a blockbuster hit

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ly1V TIL Plans were in place to sever all communication w/ Astronauts on the moon if they had been stranded by a technical failure.
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