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TIL that a 10+ hour film version of Dune was almost produced with Salvador Dali as the Emperor, with art by HR Giger and music by Pink Floyd

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W76no TIL That in 2007 Luke Skywalker's lightsabre was taken into space by NASA.
DQx9e TIL; Before leaving the Titanic, a second officer forgot to hand over a key to the locker - which housed the ships' binoculars. The lookouts that night later said, if they had binoculars, they would have avoided the iceberg.
wLKbP TIL that after surviving the explosion of a rocket launch failure, the first thing the Soviet cosmonauts asked their rescue crews was cigarettes, but they were given shots of vodka instead
pYAaN TIL: According to a 2016 study, having a first-class section on an airplane quadruples the chances of an air rage incident. Furthermore, loading economy passengers through first class doubles the chances again.
obAL TIL of Momcilo Gavric, a seven year old who joined the Serbian army during WW1 after his parents were killed by Austrian soldiers. His first assignment was to point out the positions of the soldiers who had killed his family the day before. He was promoted to Corporal and later to Lance Sergeant