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TIL a Japanese anime version of Starship Troopers was released in 1988, before the 1997 film

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Z0Wv TIL Over 1100 men died aboard the USS Arizona in the attack on Pearl Harbor. When a survivor of the attack passes away, they have the option to be interred inside the ship, to be buried with the rest of their crew.
logEa TIL Lord Voldemort’s costume had 7 shades of green for each of his 7 horcruxes. Every time one was destroyed, his cloak lost a shade and faded in color to give the impression he was “fading away”
g1x7 TIL that Katey Sagal (Married With Children, Futurama, Sons of Anarchy) has twin sisters who had their own TV show in the 80’s called Double Trouble
OLR TIL that getting a PhD from Harvard Business School is totally free.
wLX81 TIL during the first combat usage of the American Sidewinder missile in 1958, a dud hit an enemy plane and became lodged without exploding. The pilot returned to base, allowing Soviet engineers to study it and reverse-engineer a nearly identical missile for their own use.