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TIL There’s an amusement park in Vegas that lets you drive construction equipment in a giant sandbox

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Z8J6Y TIL the Soviet Government banned Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin from space flight after another Cosmonaut died in a crash, fearing the political impact his death would have. Gagarin requested that he be able to fly regular aircraft, which the government granted. He died five weeks later in a plane crash.
b98Z4 TIL the CCP has 90.5 million members.
0e5M TIL your leg can get paralyzed if you sit on your wallet too much.
M1QA TIL That Amon Goeth was charged by the Nazis for not providing enough food to the prisoners in his camp, and for violating rules regarding the treatment of prisoners
E51w TIL Howard Hughes bought an entire casino just so he could tear down their neon sign. Visible from Hughes’ bedroom, it apparently had kept him up at night.