Post * a0lo — Curious Curator

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TIL Deep Roy is the only actor to hold the “science fiction trifecta,” having appeared in Star Wars, Star Trek and Doctor Who. He’s also been in X-Files, NeverEnding Story, and Transformers.

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e0m7k TIL The International Potato Center has successfully grown potatoes in a simulated Mars environment. They grew the plants in a CubeSat which mimicked the Martian air pressure and atmosphere, and used saline desert soils analogous to Martian soils as the growing medium.

PYALG TIL over 95% of pilots land their planes when conditions dictate that they shouldn’t.

VBXEB TIL of William Rankin, one of only two people to ever survive falling all the way through a thunderstorm cloud. He would fall for almost 40 minutes while suffering frost bite, welts and other serious injuries

BrMwr TIL the "Be Prepared" scene featured in The Lion King was based off the 1935 Nazi propaganda film "Triumph of the Will"

rRMQ0 TIL In WWII around 140 Jewish prisoners were employed by the Nazis to forge British pound banknotes for a total value of £300 million ($24 billion in 2020). They were so successful that in 1943 the Bank of England withdrew all denominations above £5, until 1964. All the prisoners survived the war.