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TIL The first Soviet dog to return from space alive "Strelka" later had puppies. Soviet leader Nikita Kruschev gifted one of the puppies to JFK's daughter Caroline.

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69eWJ TIL porcelain dentures included traces of uranium up until the mid-1980s, the idea was the fluorescence provided by uranium would better mimic the colour of natural teeth
lnO1 TIL Apple issued a recall for the 1st generation Ipod Nano. Owners will be issued a current generation Ipod Nano.
M7Ea TIL Nokia made a handheld game console in 2003, the N-Gage. In the first two weeks, Nokia claimed to have sold 400,000 units, but researchers later found they had only actually sold 5,800~ units in total.
b94v4 TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA
wLeDE TIL an indigenous language in Mexico nearly died out in 2007 after the last two remaining speakers stopped talking to each other