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TIL PayPal Forced An Online Buyer To Destroy An Antique Violin To Get His Money Back After He Buyer Claimed It Wasn’t What He Wanted

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1kpO TIL After cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the world’s first spacewalk, the space capsule landed so deep in the Soviet forest that the crew had to spend the night in their capsule due to the danger of bears and wolves.
DJ6J TIL John F. Kennedy won the U.S. Presidency by only a 0.17% margin
R5NQ TIL that singapore used to force visitors to have a haircut as a condition of entry. apparently even transit passengers weren’t exempt from the rule
YNk7 TIL in 2010, a Kansas State University professor went on a Twinkie diet, where he ate mainly Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos to prove to his students that calorie counting is the important part of losing weight, not nutritional content. He lost 27 pounds in 2 months.
Bg6nL TIL that leap year is skipped on years divisible by 100 unless the year is also divisible by 400.