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TIL Diehard Star Trek Fans Ranked Galaxy Quest the 7th Best Star Trek film

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j6L0j TIL YOU were the Time Person of the Year 2006
LKBm TIL Wooly Mammoths survived on a couple of isolated islands in Siberia for up to 6,000 years after the species had gone extinct on the mainland.
gMRRb TIL: The rumored ancient Egyptian city of Thonis (Heracleion), said to be the most significant port in the region before Alexandria was established, had become a legend. It was lost to myth until archaeologist Franck Goddio and team happened upon its ruins --underwater, several miles off the coast.
QJbGd TIL about the final speech of Romanian dictator Nicolas Ceaușescu: Having forcefully assembled 100.000 workers under threat of being fired on one of Bucharests main squares in order to stage a supportive rally, the crowd soon turned against him, marking the beginning of the end of his dictatorship.
9YZ0Q TIL Police in Japan still wear white gloves after The Beatles toured there in 1966 and the authorities were worried about holding crowds of screaming girls back with bare hands.