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TIL Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. She spent almost three days in space and is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission

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MjGK TIL Despite being one of the series’ most beloved characters, Yoda’s species’ name is never given in the Star Wars saga.
LWap TIL when Winston Churchill was warned by the German foreign minister that if WWII were to occur, the Italians would be on the German side, he responded: “That’s only fair - we had them last time.”
ANWBw TIL Grumman, the aerospace and defense corporation, also makes the ubiquitous United States Postal Service Truck
94ND TIL deep in Africa there are accounts of people seeing dinosaur-like creatures that resembles a Brachiosaurus or Apatosaurus. The locals call it Mokèlé-mbèmbé and there have been several documented expeditions to find it from as early as 1776 to as late as 2012.
wL4ZE TIL GEICO is an acronym