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TIL that Sam Rockwell copied everything he did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens.

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Z8nav TIL of Ventilator 202, a popular 80’s live radio show in Beograd, Yugoslavia, which would occasionally broadcast computer games audio for listeners to record on tapes and run on Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum and other tape based computers.
9Ymbm TIL about Operation Pluto, an operation to lay submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel in support of the Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII. The two pipelines, "Bambi" and "Dumbo", carried 180 million imperial gallons of petrol to the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe.
4kBbN TIL that all people have hemorrhoids.
VBRN0 TIL The Super Mario Bros Movie is the highest-grossing video game film adaptation of all time at $1.36 billion, more than triple the runner up's total of $450.1m (Pokemon Detective Pikachu).