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TIL that Iron Sky (the film about Moon Nazis) made over half of its box office gross in Germany

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vadj TIL that Galaxy Quest was ranked #7 on a list of the best Star Trek Films as voted by Trek Con-Goers.
yx6M TIL Tupac Shakur was originally considered to play the part of Mace Windu in “Star Wars”, but was murdered before he could audition
4Xx1X TIL the first Soviet soldiers to raise the USSR flag over the Reichstag were a small team headed by Rakhimzhan Qoshqarbaev, who sneaked into the occupied building and raised it under cover of darkness. It was shot down by German snipers the next day
JYG68 TIL Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-born American computer architect who led the Intel team that invented the USB (Universal Serial Bus), regrets not making it reversible. It would have doubled the cost, which was a hard sell at the time, "[b]ut in hindsight, we blew it." He holds 132 patents and counting.
KYo9Q TIL About a Gorilla Who Carried a 3-Year-Old Boy to Safety After He Fell Into An Enclosure in 1996