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TIL Star Trek Voyager's captain, Kate Mulgrew was tricked into narrating a documentary supportive of a geocentric viewpoint.

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45w5 TIL Winfield Scott served in the War of 1812, and the Civil War. Roughly equivalent to someone serving in both WWI and Vietnam.
grYnA TIL when Sidney Poitier gets slapped in 'In the Heat of Night' (1967) and he slaps a white man in return, he had it written into his contract that the movie would would only show the version where he slaps the man back or else he wouldn't take the role.
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kKd7 TIL the place name Kandahar in Afghanistan loosely translates to “Alexander” as in Alexander the Great. Khandahar was one of the cities named Alexandria established during Alexander’s conquests.