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TIL: Rue McClanahan (Blanche from the Golden Girls) received a conscription notice for Korea on account of her masculine sounding first name - Eddi

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O974 TIL the European Space Agency and EU are currently deploying an alternative to GPS, called “Galileo”. As well as being accurate to 1 meter, it will also have a “Search and Rescue Service”, where distress signals can be picked up from anywhere on Earth. The full system will be completed by 2019.
oKjK TIL that Crispin Glover wasn’t actually in Back to the Future 2; it was all spliced archival footage from BTF1. He sued Spielberg for doing that and won.
ALgg TIL that sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them because when you make your own, you anticipate its taste and become less hungry for it.
v1m1j TIL that early film music was heavily influenced by European romantic music of the late 1800s. The first silent film to feature fully orchestrated accompaniment was "The Assassination of the Duke of Guise" (1908) with a score by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns