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TIL that Serhii Koroliov, head engineer of the soviet space program, was tortured for 6 years in the GULAG prior to sending Yurii Gagarin to space. The other rocket scientists he was arrested with were executed.

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Wm8X TIL A couple adopted a chimpanzee and which learned to open doors, use keys, get dresses, water the plants, feed the horses, use a computer and drive their car too. But when he was 14 yrs old, he brutally attacked a family friend totally disfiguring her.
8aAlK TIL that a British bomb detection dog named Theo died from stress a few hours after seeing his handler get shot. The pair had set a record for bomb detection, and the dog was posthumously awarded an honour equivalent to the Victoria Cross.
gBRb TIL Homosexual black swans form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs and then drive them away.
Z8kv TIL that Mister Rogers was awarded 40 honorary degrees throughout his career as an entertainer and educator.
wMPJ TIL the US is obligated by treaty to go to war for 67 different countries if they were to find themselves in conflict.