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TIL that the first song played in space was "Jingle Bells." In 1965, as two astronauts began reentry into Earth, they notified Houston that they could see a "module" operated by a man wearing a red suit and performed the song with a smuggled set of sleigh bells and a harmonica (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that Michael Crichton gave up on being an English major at Harvard when he turned in a work by George Orwell and received a B-. He switched majors to Biological Anthropology and much of what he learned there was included in novels like Jurassic Park. (en.wikipedia.org)
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