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TIL that the Soviets were the first to land on Mars

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9bZB TIL of Ken McElroy, the “town bully” of Skidmore, Missouri whose unsolved 1981 murder was witnessed by as many as 46 people
6ErpJ TIL the first known use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in baseball was in 1899, when Hall of Fame pitcher Pud Galvin received an injection of crushed dog and guinea pig testicles
LQlAv TIL that in 1980, the city of Philadelphia became the only North American city in which all four major sports teams played for their respective championships in one year (NBA/NHL/MLB/NFL). Although the Phillies were the only team to win the championship that year.
awb1J TIL Stalin’s head of Poisons’ Laboratory, who spent years trying to find an undetectable poison leading to death by cardiac failure, died himself of a cardiac failure after reminding Krushchev how they took part together to a political assassination
LkQeZ TIL there’s a museum in Amsterdam that houses deformed human embryos and other such abnormalities