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TIL A group of fans made an award winning web series completing the 5 year mission of the Enterprise in the original Star Trek series. So good, Gene Roddenberry's son considers it to be canon.

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yVlnM TIL; Most people shower too often and too aggresively: "Aggressive, daily cleaning techniques will cause skin to break down, flaring atopic dermatitis, eczema, and causing uncomfortable itchy, red skin... from a dermatologist's point of view, using bare hands or a soft cloth of flannel is best"
wL8Ro Today I learned that the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" fought against the Nazis, the Soviets and the Polish Home Army, making it the only organization to fight the Axis, Comintern and Western Allies
nW7p7 TIL The movie Crossfire (1947) was based on the book The Brick Foxhole (1945). The book focused on homophobia but the film was changed to focus on anti-semitism because the Hays Code prohibited homosexual content.
0wPPv TIL, The famous fictional British spy, James Bond (code name 007) was borrowed from a real-life American ornithologist who had written Birds of the West Indies, a book that Fleming, creator of James bond had loved in his youth.
6Egj8 TIL that those "baby on board" signs hanging in car windows serve a purpose of alerting first responders that there is a person in the vehicle that's unable to unbuckle themselves in the event of an accident