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TIL The New York Times tech writer, David Pogue was given 1 of 4 iPhones to ever leave Apple [2007] and lost it in a taxicab

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e0PE6 TIL that in 1962, elephant bones were discovered under the Vatican. Decades later, it was discovered that they were the bones of Pope Leo X's pet elephant Hanno, who died in 1516 after doctors (in an attempt to treat constipation) inserted a gold enema up its rectum.
peaN TIL that upon returning to Earth and landing in a field, Yuri Gagarin was asked by an astonished woman if he had come from Outer Space, to which he replied “As a matter of fact, I have!”
xPEo TIL the Diomede Islands in the Bering Straight are 4km apart but have a time difference of 23 hours. For this reason, they are sometimes referred to as “Tomorrow Island” and “Yesterday Isle”.
p8RmA TIL that "Steady" Ed Headrick, the inventor of the Frisbee had his ashes incorporated into discs after his death so that he could fly. Ed loved the Disc Golf and Frisbee community and he wished for the community to have his discs and for them to have fun and play with them after he passed on.
KORRJ TIL that astronauts Mark Lee and Jan Davis married in secret 9 months before their joint flight to the ISS and didn't tell NASA until it was too late to train replacements. They are the only married couple to have ever flown in space together.