The latest issue of Discover magazine has a fun feature on Twenty Things You Didn’t Know About Movies. This article will be especially meaningful for history buffs, as many of the interesting items are about the early history of film and movie-making. But there’s some modern tidbits, too. For instance, did you know that Apollo 13, Armageddon and Around the World in 80 Days are all in the movie collection NASA keeps on the International Space Station, or that an IMAX projector costs 5 million dollars, weighs as much as a male hippo, and the bulb is so bright that if it was pointed upward it could be seen at the ISS? Now those are some fun facts!

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