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TIL Nalgene originally made their plastic containers for lab work and hikers had to buy the iconic bottles from lab suppliers

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aKM TIL: Harrison Ford got his first big gig in Hollywood because he installed cabinets as a carpenter at George Lucas’ house.
KYOYR TIL Ray Charles's final film role was a guest star in, "Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie."(2000) prior to his death four years later in 2004.
yQ0xa TIL that Kathy Sullivan, the astronaut who in 1984 became the first American woman to walk in space, has now become the first woman to reach Challenger Deep, the lowest known point on the planet
p80Le TIL: The Meisterschale has enough space to fit the next Bundesliga champions until 2026
vQm4 TIL that to keep the paparazzi away during the filming of Return of the Jedi, George Lucas claimed that he was filming a horror movie called “Blue Harvest”