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TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.

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nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.
LGwp TIL Turkish Maroon Berets(special forces) has a training program called The Trust Shot. It consists of two members of a squad standing next to paper target boards, while another member fires on the targets with a handgun while walking towards them from 15 meters (50 feet) away.
R5p19 TIL the Philippines consists of 7,641 islands
QrxX TIL that NASA no longer has the original recording of the moon landing because it has been recorded over and reused. NASA admitted it back in 2006
N7RAM TIL Christopher Nolan originally wrote a full script with Heath Ledger's Joker playing a prominent role in 'The Dark Knight Rises', but scrapped and re-wrote the entire script after Ledger passed away.