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TIL that American rockets are often equipped with a self-destruct system to protect people if the vehicle goes off course. Since 1958, 33 US orbital launch attempts have ended by self-destruction.

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EgQvW Today I learned that South Africa has celebrate "National Cleavage Day" since 2002.
nRdB TIL at a ‘The Who’ concert in 1969, a man rushed the stage and tried to take the microphone. Roger Daltrey punched him in the face, and Pete Townshend kicked him in the crotch. The man was actually a plain-clothes policeman trying to warn of a large fire next door. Townshend was later arrested
KYo7J TIL: That disagreement surrounds the method by which kleptomania is considered and diagnosed. On one hand, some researchers believe that kleptomania is merely theft and dispute the suggestion that there are psychological mechanisms involved, while others observe it as substance-related misuse.
4WYw TIL that Night of the Living Dead was entered into the public domain because the original distributor forgot to place a copyright notification in the film.
gJO8 TIL there was an 18th-century racehorse named Potoooooooo. His name was originally Potatoes, but when his owner told the stable boy to write his name on a feed bin, he misheard it as “pot-eight-o’s”. The owner found it so funny that he kept it as the horse’s name.