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TIL Tim and Eric directed the Old Spice commercials starring Terry Crews

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16bAX TIL that there is a broom closet inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex labelled "Stargate Command" in reference to the fact that the bunker was the fictional setting of the TV show "Stargate SG-1."
oBoV8 TIL that Phil Zimmerman, the developer of PGP, named the symmetric-key cipher of PGP v1.0 as "BassOmatic", based on a Dan Aykroyd SNL skit involving a blender and a whole fish to illustrate that the BassOmatic algorithm does to data what the original BassOmatic did to the fish
v19mj TIL that 'nose art', or the practice of painting pin-ups or cartoons on the front of war planes, died out in the early 1970s when Air Force Chief of Staff John Ryan called for a moratorium on the practice. It's been quietly making a comeback in recent years, albeit now strictly controlled.
jN6JQ TIL The Lunokhod1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world.
7rrkb TIL in Sweden parents planning to name a baby must get the approval of the government, submitting the proposed name of a child within three months of birth