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TIL that JFK’s daughter was secretly gifted the puppy of the first Russian dog in space as part of a series of secret daily correspondence between JFK and Kruschev. The dog then proceeded to bite every Kennedy

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4kNB6 TIL that Combos, officially called Combos Stuffed Snacks, are produced by forming a soft bread-like dough, which is hollowed out into a tube-shaped form. A cutter slices the dough into bite-sized lengths. The snacks are then baked, cooled, and filled with the appropriate filling.
km4 TIL Iceland was officially treated by UK as a terrorist country in 2008.
6XpY TIL Buzz Aldrin invented a way for a space station to perpetually switch orbits between Earth and Mars, dubbed the “Aldrin Mars Cycler”. It would greatly reduce costs of Mars colonization efforts if implemented.
OoZEX TIL when King George V was near death in 1936, his doctor injected him with, "750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease [his] suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight."
rvXd TIL that the FAA has banned all ‘uber airplane’ ridesharing type services