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TIL that for the 10th anniversary edition of the film 'Titanic', James Cameron edited the starry night sky to be exactly as it would have been on April 15th, 1912 at 4:20am. This was after astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson repeatedly emailed, chiding him for getting the sky wrong in the original

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