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TIL one of television’s first interracial kisses, between Star Trek’s Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura, was originally supposed to be between Spock and Uhura. However, when William Shatner (Captain Kirk) heard, he said 'If anybody is gonna get to kiss Lieutenant Uhura it’s gonna be me.’

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lorYA TIL NASA officially banned consuming Alcohol in space in 1972 after sherry was proposed for Skylab meals, but it never really went away. “NASA will tell you there is no alcohol aboard the ISS” says astronaut Clayton Anderson. “As a person who lived there for five months, I’ll tell you that’s bogus."
JdKQ TIL that UPS drivers only turn right when possible. This move saved them 20.4 million miles in one year and reduced CO2 emissions by 20,000 tons.
nGKB TIL A 16 year old attempted to prank gang members stating “are you ready to dye” before pulling out a bottle of Clairol hair dye. Before the bottle could be pulled out, one of the gang members shot the 16 year old multiple times in the head.
1DlW TIL VLC’s icon is a traffic cone because the students who created the media player kept a collection of traffic cones.
d81O8 TIL During the filming of Spartacus, Kirk Douglas & Stanley Kubrick had such a bad relationship that they got therapy together.