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TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.

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6EjJW TIL from 1999 to 2006 John Mackey, founder of Whole Foods, made anonymous postings on a Yahoo chat forum as Rahodeb, anagram of "Deborah" supporting Whole Foods and denigrating Wild Oats, a competitor he later acquired. The messages were disclosed in court filings by the FTC.
0dJPL TIL INTERLINGUA is an auxiliary language that every Romance language (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian) speaker can easily understand without ever studying, thanks to these languages' common Latin roots.
OZB7 TIL the USSR beat the US at nearly everything in the space race (besides putting humans on the Moon)
p8RVA TIL Las Vegas casinos used MIT yearbooks to identify potential card counters.
QDLL TIL that Bill Gates modified the code of his school’s schedule program so he could sit in classes that were full of girls.