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TIL NASA astronauts must learn Russian to be considered fully mission capable

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N7Zo1 TIL The Star Wars (1977) attack run scene was heavily influenced by the Dam Busters (1955) bombing run (based on the true story of a low flying bombing run, deep in Axis territory, amidst enemy fire, with a very narrow target window to hit a weak point in enourmous enemy targets. Sound familiar?).
4knjo TIL that Western zoos do not buy or sell animals to one another but trade them instead.
noKr TIL that in 2007, while excavating for a new building in Central London, archeologists discovered the unmarked isolated remains of a teenage Roman girl. She was later reburied on site with full Roman burial rites, and her tomb is marked by a Latin inscription commemorating the “Unknown Roman Girl.”
GA1Q4 TIL a 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is the "most scientifically accurate of all films of this [killer virus] genre ... it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it.
DQgNP TIL that the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota is the only American National Park named directly after a single person.