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TIL that the Top Gun movie (1986) contained no footage of the actors in the air because they all vomited while shooting.

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OokRL TIL during China’s Ming Dynasty, powdered smallpox scabs were blown up the noses of the healthy. The patients would then develop a mild case of the disease, & from then on were immune to it. Although the technique had a 0.5–2.0% mortality rate, it was better than the diseases 20–30% mortality rate.
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