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TIL that humans are the only animals that have chins

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b9wn9 TIL Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, was the first person to be “Buried in space”. On April 21, 1997, his ashes were brought to the Canary Islands and loaded aboard the Pegasus-XL and launched out of the rocket.
eBR6 TIL calling someone a patriot was an insult until the American Revolution
6oYJ TIL Evangeline Lilly was promised there would be no love triangle in The Hobbit, her one stipulation for accepting the role. A year later the actors were called back for reshoots, with a love triangle added in.
kMG7 TIL Winston Churchill, whilst visiting the USA during the height of prohibition, got a doctor’s note prescribing him “unlimited alcohol” constituting a suggested minimum of 6 shots with dinner.
nWkJP TIL that Signs was the first major Hollywood film to be shot after 9/11 having been filmed a few days after