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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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GEBg TIL there exists evidence of “highly suspicious” insider trading on two airlines in the days leading up to 9/11 that can be traced to an unnamed US-based institutional investor.
7rExr TIL about Le Gentil. In 1760, went to India to see transit of Venus. He missed it, so he waited there for 8 years until the next one. When he returned, he learned that he had been declared dead: His estate had been divided up, his wife had remarried, and his position at the academy was given away.
n7Xo TIL A woman survived a bear mauling by hiking back to her car and driving 4 miles for help, even though her face was partially ripped off and an eyeball was hanging out of its socket.
VMbY0 TIL Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” passes the Bechdel-Wallace Test
vPRZK TIL That a "bindle" is the bundle of belongings wrapped in a blanket or bandana and carried over the shoulder on a stick by the American "hobo" trope. Another name for a hobo carrying such a bindle is a "bindlestiff".