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TIL When Switzerland refused to sell North Korea ski lifts, North Korea responded with calling it an instance of “serious human rights abuse”

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9R7m TIL The First Self-Made Female Millionaire in the U.S. Was a Black Woman
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KZlw TIL the guy who succeeded Isaac Newton as President of the Royal Society was the man who invented chocolate milk.
5Ynxn TIL that NASA engineers once asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was enough for a 7 day mission
epEJE TIL the first commercial airplane crash that killed more than 100 people happened in 1956 over the Grand Canyon. A Douglas DC-7 hit a Lockheed Super Constellation and crashed into a ravine slope at over 480 mph, while the Lockheed disintegrated into a cliff. All 128 people on the planes died.