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TIL Buzz Aldrin brougth Wine and Bread on board Apollo 11 to take Communion ON THE MOON

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1amjr TIL: The Apollo Guidance computer was programmed in metric, but showed imperial values in the displays. Using metric meant fewer calculations thus optimizing the use of the limited processing power and the astronauts were used to imperial so that's what they saw on the display.
Rr8w TIL that since Bale had recently been in The Machinist, he was about 120lbs(54kg) before he began work on Batman Begins. He was told to be “as big as you could be” and after 6 months, he was at 220 - too large to play the Batman Nolan wanted. He then dropped 20-30 lbs.
9Yr0X TIL about Joseph Trombino, a Brinks security guard who, after being shot multiple times in the famed armored car robbery of 1981, was almost killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and eventually lost his life during the 9/11 attacks while making a delivery in the North Tower.
b6M60 TIL there is a 40 acre patch of land in Maine that looks like a desert even though the area receives about 51 inches of rain and 71 inches of snow a year.
60lQ TIL when a high school in Pennsylvania issued MacBooks to its students, they remotely activated the webcams to take automatic photos of the students every 15 minutes. They took over 56,000 webcam shots before getting busted. They were sued for $610,000.