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Today I learned a soviet cosmonaut outlasted the collapse of his country in space, leaving earth as a soviet and returning as a russian

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V7b8 TIL: Harry Truman, before he became the President, tried to enlist in the Army. He was refused after an eye chart test determined him having 20/400 vision in the left eye (past the standard for legal blindness). He took the test a second time after memorizing the eye chart and got enlisted.
Yp5nA TIL a man suеd a strіpper, saying he had a whіplаsh injury when she swung her brеasts, "like two cement blocks", into his face. A female bаіliff examіned the breasts in private, and found them to be "soft", weighing ~2 pounds each. After retiring, the strіpper sold one of her brеast implаnts on еBаy
WkG89 TIL a 1485 poem describes the knight who killed Richard III as having 'shaved the boar's head.' This was thought to be a metaphor for beheading until his bones were discovered. The back of Richard III's skull had been sliced off. According to a French chronicler, it had been done with a halberd.
GYAY5 TIL that in 2010, Microsoft held a funeral for the iPhone to celebrate the launch of Windows Phone 7
wLPY8 TIL that in 1967, the two factions involved in the Nigerian Civil War agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire so they could watch Pelé play an exhibition game in Lagos.