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TIL only three people were trained to pack the parachutes used in Apollo. NASA forbade them from riding in the same car.

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D1EOp TIL that chants and choir tracks in the DOOM Eternal video game was a large, varied group of experienced metal singers lead by Mick Gordon
V61B TIL that Woody Allen’s Oscar-winning script, “Midnight in Paris,” began as just a title he liked for a film. So, rather than coming up with a title for a written film, he wrote the film only after coming up with the title; it took several months for the film’s idea to come to him and fit the title.
QNJYX TIL that in 2006, an anti-scammer convinced an email scammer to send him a detailed wooden carving of a Commodore 64.
Wk1gd TIL S is an actual grade in japan above A and isn't just a video game grade
D1nAr TIL famous SF author Philip K. Dick wrote a novel in which the Germans and Japanese won World War Two and jointly occupied the United States. He also contacted the FBI about a perceived plot, apparently having been asked to put certain code words in his novels meant as a message.