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TIL Danny Devito helped produce Pulp Fiction and Gattacca

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XEGeE TIL that Senator Jake Garn, who flew in the Space Shuttle in 1985, experienced the worst case of space sickness on record. Because of this, NASA jokingly uses a "Garn Scale" to measure reactions to space sickness, where "1.0 Garn" is the worst.
nWam9 TIL in 1962 there was a serious laughing epidemic in Tanzania that spread across towns and caused people to laugh uncontrollably. It lasted for several months.
loJQG TIL that the astronauts of Apollo 11 were refused life insurance, so they signed photos of themselves so that their families could auction them for money in case the landing failed and the crew were killed.
xO5B TIL bank robber Jesse James once gave a widow who housed him enough money to pay off her debt collector and then robbed the debt collector to give her back the money.
78eLX TIL Due to atmospheric anomalies, during WWII a farmhouse in Rhode Island was able to intercept enemy radio transmissions from around the world | Even German tank-to-tank communications in North Africa