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TIL Apollo 13 was filmed using zero-g training planes to simulate weightlessness instead of wires and CGI

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mxyMP TIL during a match at the 2003 Rugby World Cup, a drunken Samoan fan ran onto the field in an attempt to block a penalty kick from a South African player. The player kicked the ball and the fan's head simultaneously. The kick was good and the fan was knocked unconscious.
LkBeZ TIL some maritime history and the word “quarantine” originates from the Venetian dialect form of the Italian ‘quaranta giorni’, meaning “forty days”.
MJm7 TIL during The Battle of Shiloh in the Civil war, many of the soldiers’ wounds glowed. Those with these glowing wounds healed faster, and thus the wounds were dubbed the “Angel’s Glow”.
xP17 TIL E.T. was originally planned as a horror movie - featuring aliens who can kill “by the touch of a long, bony finger”
wL5wW TIL Prince Harry of Wales served in Afghanistan for ten weeks in 2007-08. Subsequently he was pulled out of the country after an Australian newspaper reported on his presence in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.