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TIL NASA engineers asked Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, if 100 tampons was the right number for her 7-day trip to space.

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oE7E TIL, the Beastie Boys began as a hardcore punk band as a joke and mimicked their name after the Angry Samoans. They opened up for the Bad Brains and the Circle Jerks before shifting into a hip-hop sound
8eXQL TIL that when the first rail bridge over the Mississippi River was being planned, riverboat operators pushed for rigid standards in hopes of making the bridge impossible. Instead, the bridge pioneered multiple engineering techniques and still carries road and rail traffic 150 years later.
0wJM5 TIL A Russian mob gang filmed themselves doing Mob things and turned it into a 7 part documentary called "Spets". All the blood is real. The show received a rating of 100%!
x8wD TIL that an Icelandic MP arranged for the relocation of a 30-ton boulder, which he believes is home to three generations of elves that saved his life in a serious car accident with that rock.
M7V9W TIL how dangerous it was to serve in the US Air Force in Europe in WW2. Just the US 8th Air Force alone lost 26,000 KIA out of a total strength of 200,000. Comparatively the Marine Corps suffered just under 20,000 KIA while having 50,000 more men deployed.