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TIL that two buttons in WWII RAF uniform can be put together to make a mini compass which indicates towards north

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N7XVN TIL the 1998 movie 'BASEketball' was NOT written, directed or produced by Trey Parker & Matt Stone (South Park) - and they only acted in it.
Zpx6G TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 snuck Playboy pictures into the prime crew’s mission checklist. It also contained geology jokes, such as “observe the protuberances.”
154W TIL when Columbus first sailed to America his ship’s captain (Rodrigo de Triana) spotted land first but Columbus later claimed he had already seen it a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension that had been promised by King Ferdinand to the first person to sight land.
6onW TIL when John Williams first played the theme song to the film “Jaws” by playing just two notes on piano, Steven Spielberg laughed and thought it was a joke.
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