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TIL, Conway Twitty Sang 'Hello Darlin' in Russian. On July 19, 1975, the recording was played by the American astronauts on board the Apollo module to Russian cosmonauts flying in Soyuz 19. It was meant to be seen as a gesture of peace and goodwill toward the Russians.

9wEYD TIL In September 1730 in India, 363 men, women, and children were killed while trying to peacefully protect a grove of Khejri trees which were sacred to them from being chopped down. Due to the sacrifice of the protesters, the ruler took back his earlier order of felling trees.
nW0GW TIL the Vipeholm experiments were studies where intellectually disabled patients in Lund, Sweden, were given large amounts of sweets, including toffee that clung to teeth, to study cavities. Funded by dentists and the sugar industry, they proved sugar causes decay but are now seen as unethical.
X07x8 TIL Looney Tunes character Pepé Le Pew was based on the 1937 French film Pépé le Moko where the main character says the line "Come with me to ze Casbah"
4X5Yw TIL two high school students found that despite advertising claims that “the blackcurrants in Ribena have four times the vitamin C of oranges,” the drink contained almost no trace of vitamin C and one orange juice brand had over three times more. The company were taken to court and fined NZ$217,500.
14OX TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast for defamation for using her name in a song title. Outkast eventually settled by creating educational programs on Parks’ impact on America