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TIL to film the weightless space scenes in the Apollo 13 movie the cast and crew did 612 25-second takes aboard NASA’s zero-gravity plane

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oRyoW TIL the Aztec word for "gold" is "poop of the gods"
d8n5E TIL: Richard Pryor was raised in the actual brothel where his mother worked, which was owned by his own no-nonsense grandmother, Marie Carter.
97aM TIL April Fools day in French is “Poisson d'Avril” (literally fish of April) and children try to stick a crudely drawn fish on each others back in secrecy.
JYJnv TIL that O.J Simpson in 2006 had a prank show called "Juiced". In one of the scenes, Simpson is at a used car lot in Las Vegas where he attempts to sell his white bullet holed Bronco
WgRo TIL that Halliburton was forced to pay only $200,000 in fines following the firm’s willful destruction of incriminating evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.