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TIL the USSR beat the US at nearly everything in the space race (besides putting humans on the Moon)

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epZj6 TIL that .io is a ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain) and not a generic IT/developer related domain. It belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territory and will be phased out.
6dKJ TIL a woman won the New Jersey lottery twice, and now lives in a trailer park
DQwMv TIL Dinosaurs had belly buttons
Y7ZoW TIL that in 1992, an Australian comedy show called "Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos" was pulled from TV midway through the broadcast after Kerry Packer, the owner of Nine Network, phoned the studio operators and angrily shouted at them to "get that shit off the air!"
e0YAE TIL about highpointing: The act of ascending the highest point of every American state. Only 10 new people manage to climb them/year, making it more unique than climbing the Mount Everest!