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TIL that NASA had released an 18-minute Ultra HD 4K video tour of the ISS last year, showing the space station in its full high-definition glory.

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Zp9mB TIL The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still in limited release after 47 years making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history
xAaD TIL the current Earl of Sandwich owns and founded a chain of 24 sandwich shops, the first of which opened in Walt Disney World
V8yp TIL though alchemists never succeeded in transmuting lead to gold, in 1981 physicists used the particle accelerator at Berkeley to shoot Carbon nuclei at thin foils of Bismuth- the resulting collisions did produced a tiny amount of Gold atoms
P1EkE TIL that the score to Fame was composed by Michael Gore, who won an Academy Award for doing so. He also scored Terms of Endearment. He is the younger brother of Lesley Gore, who sang It's My Party.
L9bp TIL about Tanya Savicheva a young girl trapped in the Seige of Leningrad. She kept a diary of the names of each family member that died, ending with a final entry for herself: “The Savichevas are dead Everyone is dead Only Tanya is left”