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TIL Lloyd Kaufman (founder of Troma Entertainment), has a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy and was mentor to James Gunn.

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Wkp8 TIL that the term “Computer Bug” derived from Dr. Grace Hopper’s account of finding a moth stuck in the Harvard Mark II computer she was working on in 1945.
1aMvO TIL Sega sold their own line of rear-projection TV’s in the 70’s. It was called the SEGA Vision and came in 3 different models with two size choices, 44 and 50 inch. While it never reached commercial success it did end up as a prize on an episode of The Price Is Right
VV9G TIL In 1981 India launched a satellite that was transported on an ox-cart, with the rocket parts carried on the back of bicycles.
6WWm TIL the Flame of Peace in Hiroshima, Japan has burned since 1964 in honor of the bomb victims and will be extinguished only when all nuclear weapons are removed from the world and the Earth is free from nuclear threat.
OnM4 TIL Neil Armstrong and the Apollo XI crew have moons on the Hollywood Walk of Fame instead of stars.