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NASA Confirms: ‘We Are Going to the Moon’

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16xa8 TIL the writers of Total Recall tried adapting The Minority Report into its sequel, depicting Quaid as the head of an organization that uses mutants with precognition abilities to predict and stop crimes before they happen. It was reworked into a standalone film after their company’s bankruptcy.
VMQnD TIL about Moe Berg, the “strangest man to ever play baseball,” who spoke several languages and found a post-baseball career as a US spy during World War II and was ordered to kill Werner Heisenberg if the Nazis came close to building a nuclear bomb.
amv0 TIL that since his death all VLC Media Player updates have been named after the works of the late great Terry Pratchett
9YdyM TIL That sharks don't blink. To protect their eyes some sharks roll their eyes backwards to protect them when striking prey.
rNGZW Today I Learned Blackcurrants Were Banned In The US Between 1911 and 2017, Due To The Fact That They Could Spread A Disease Fatal To Pine Trees.