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APLd TIL the first country to send a man-made object into space was Nazi Germany in 3 October 1942
xV4dw TIL In 2016, Rolling Stone magazine named The Sopranos as the Greatest TV Show of All Time. The American crime saga created an immortal antihero in James Gandolfini's New Jersey Mob boss, Tony Soprano, presiding over a crew of gangsters who also double as damaged husbands and dads.
xVak1 TIL the computer program that created the THX "Deep Note" (before a movie screening) was coded to be random. The audio you hear was recorded one time and can never be recreated exactly by that computer again.
1JYP TIL that both corn flakes and graham crackers were created in hopes that their bland flavor would act as a sexual sepressant.
69poY TIL that American military pilot call signs--nicknames the pilots go by--are often based on mistakes the pilot made, and get assigned early in their career.