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TIL in 2016 pop band OK Go recorded a video for their song "Upside Down & Inside Out" in zero gravity aboard a 'reduced gravity aircraft' (AKA vomit comet). The 3-minute video required over 45 minutes of footage shot over 21 different flights.

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