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TIL, Judith Love Cohen,mother of Jack Black,was part of the team that created the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.She was working on problems with schematics on the day she went into labor,called her boss to let him know she had fixed the problem, and then delivered Jack.

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