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TIL Tony Hawk’s son is married to Kurt Cobain’s daughter

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Jd1j TIL the first female state senator in United States history ran against and beat her own husband in order to win her seat.
mxwLy TIL that NASA renamed it's condom sizes (used for urinating) from small, medium, and large, ginormous, and humongous because astronauts would get spacesuits dirty due to picking ill-fitting sizes.
8aYLK TIL that the most decorated regiment during WW2 were the Japanese Americans despite having their families locked up in concentration camps, fighting in major campaigns in Northern France, Italy, and Germany
ZnZa TIL the state of Kuwait is banned from the Olympics due to government legislation that permits the state to interfere in elections of sporting organizations. As a result, Kuwaiti athletes compete as independent athletes under the Olympic Flag instead of their own flag.
4Xd5R TIL when France was occupied by the Germans in 1940, Citroen was forced to produce vehicles for the Nazis. They chose to move the fill line on their oil dipsticks lower, causing the trucks to seize under stress from low oil.