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TIL Sputnik the fist satellite was only the size of a basketball.

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kNEe TIL that the most pilots aren’t allowed to have a beard because of the shape of an oxygen mask
kJaad TIL about Project Azorian: The C.I.A.'s secret submarine retrieval mission. After a Russian submarine crashed a millionaire helped them secretly build a ship with a giant claw game on the bottom of it, complete with over three miles of pipe to lower the claw.
kB91 TIL the creators of Superman invented him first as a villain who looked like Lex Luthor.
woEJ8 TIL that in the early 1900s, the daily horse manure production in New York City reached as much as 1,200 tons, leading to the establishment of a specialized army of horse-drawn carts for removal.
Lg90 TIL After Soviet authorities released The Grapes of Wrath as propaganda against the injustices of American capitalism, they were forced to backtrack and ban the film as audiences were instead impressed with how even poor rural American farmers owned cars