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TIL NASA named Gattaca as the best (accurate) science fiction movie of all time.

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PYPG TIL that in WW2 Lieutenant Robert R. Klingman used the propeller of his F4U Corsair to destroy an enemy reconnaissance plane. With his guns jammed, he ground away the enemy plane’s tail until it lost control and crashed. Klingman made it back to base and was awarded the Navy Cross.
Z88WY TIL that over 70% of the US populations lives in cities, with another 10% living in "urban clusters" representing groups of 2,500 to 50,000 people.
8eml4 TIL the first recorded use of the phrase "any port in a storm" was the 1749 erotic novel "Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."
epDMb TIL the DVD rental service redbox is owned by the company that makes those 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' books
ANkro TIL There’s a chance you might get blown to smithereens if you donate your body to science… Jim Stauffer said the paperwork asked specifically if medical tests involving explosions were OK. “We checked the ‘no’ box on all that,”