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TIL Sputnik (The first Soviet test flight into space) Landed in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The town now holds a yearly sci-fi festival celebrating the event.

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6EJXl TIL an Italian man found wandering Edinburgh claiming to have no memory of who he was or how he got there admitted to faking amnesia to avoid his nagging mother-in-law. His disappearance from Pisa raised suspicion when online searches 'how to disappear' and 'how to fake memory loss' were discovered.
b077 TIL in June 1984 the prime minister of New Zealand, Robert Muldoon, drunkenly announced on national television that a snap election was to be held in a month’s time. With 93.7% of voters turning out for the election, he lost. The occasion is sometimes remembered as the ‘Schnapps election’.
8e9Ma TIL For a brief period in 1930 in the US you could purchase special postage stamps to have your letters delivered via zepplin
ANGZx TIL German Donaldists are actively infiltrating the culture pages of several important newspapers in Germany, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where they subtly install quotations easily recognisable to fans of the comics.
8kbP TIL that there was a real white whale who attacked whalers who was the inspiration for “Moby Dick”.