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X0aQ6 TIL In 1959 the submarine USS Barbero assisted the US Post Office in an experiment in Rocket Mail by launching a modified Regulus missile containing two containers of mail towards the Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Mayport, Florida. The missile successfully landed after 22 minutes of travel.
b96O0 TIL the Romans had a god of poop: Sterquilinus. He was mentioned in a pilot episode of Beavis and Butthead, where his spirit rose from a port-a-potty crushed by a monster truck.
69bBY TIL the seemingly random string of letters and numbers "ji32k7au4a83" is a common password to use with online accounts because it spells out ""my password" in Chinese when using the Zhuyin keyboard layout to type.
eLjk TIL the Brazilian football player Sócrates, was a doctor of medicine, a degree he earned concurrently playing professional football. He was also noted for being an intellectual, a heavy drinker and a smoker.
5YwRQ TIL that the gun Vincent van Gogh used to shoot himself with was recently sold for €162,500 (£144,000; $182,000), almost three times more than expected. It was billeted as "the most famous weapon in art history".