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TIL Antarctica has a emergency phone number: 911. It Calls the nearest island/country that has a Police / Emergency system.

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R5MY9 TIL that one of the most quoted lines from Star Trek: The Original Series is “Beam me up, Scotty." It’s been used in merchandise, commercials and other media influenced by the show. Ironically, this exact quote has never actually been said in any Star Trek episode or movie.
VAP8 TIL In the fifth season of South Park, they were going to kill off the character of Kyle in the episode “Kenny Dies”. They thought the characters Stan and Kyle were too similar, and wanted to “genuinely shock the fans.”
4XbQX TIL: Alfred Hitchcock was so afraid of Psycho being spoiled ahead of time that he bought up as many copies of the original novel as possible. He also insisted that cinemas (for the first time) schedule screening times, sell tickets for those screenings, and not let anyone in after the film started.
R7mew TIL the CIA declassified a document where a subject found and gave the exact coordinates to underground USSR facility while Astral Projecting
jNmAM TIL the movie Big (1988) was co-written by Steven Spielberg’s sister, Anne Spielberg. It’s her only official credit for a major film and was Oscar-nominated for it.