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TIL Hitler’s unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf, written in 1928, praised the US as a ‘racially successful’ society.

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jdon TIL a mile in America is about 3.2 millimetres longer than in the rest of the world.
BrEVD TIL that the Soviet Union sent an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in an attempt to bring back lunar soil. It was in lunar orbit as Armstrong and Aldrin performed their famous spacewalk. It crashed on the lunar surface hours before the Apollo astronauts lifted off for their return to Earth.
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