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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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LQOoP TIL Many western scholars were fond of the Khmer Rouge and some denied or still deny the atrocities committed by them
5lkQ TIL the 1940s, Coca-Cola made a clear coke that resembled vodka for the Marshal of the Soviet Union so he could be seen drinking it without offending Joseph Stalin
NjK1 TIL that in Saudi Arabia, all women, regardless of age, are required to have a male guardian. They also need permission from their male guardian to seek education, employment, open up a bank account, travel (under the age of 45), have surgery and marry or divorce
EgJnd TIL Wolverine's official comic book height stands at 5 foot 3 inches tall
ErBp TIL Beauty & the Beast may be based on a true story about a man (Petrus Gonsalvus) with an excessive hair disease called hypertrichosis and King Henry II of France had him educated then married off as an experiment