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TIL Steven Spielberg declined to direct the Harry Potter movies because they weren’t challenging, and he thought they should have been animated

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4PWJ TIL that “to train each Apache pilot from scratch cost £3 million. It took six months just to learn how to fly it, another six to know how to fight in it, and a final six to be passed combat ready. And that was if you were already a fully qualified, combat-trained army helicopter pilot.”
nxjY TIL that a new type of math was invented for Futurama in the episode “The Prisoner of Brenda”
PYoZZ TIL that there is still a passenger ocean liner in operation. The Queen Mary 2 offers a regular service from New York City and Southampton, England. It is the only passenger ocean liner in service designed primarily for travel, rather than the leisure of a cruise ship.
8aeGb Mars, the red planet, may not have always been so red. In fact, 3.5 billion years ago it had an ocean that spanned its entire northern hemisphere!
d8vej TIL that one particular new years eve party during the late 1970s held in studio 54 saw 4 tons of glitter dropped, months later it was possible to find traces of glitter in the homes of people who attended the party