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TIL that smoking was not banned on airplanes in the US until 1988. And it was only a partial ban at that

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jNMov There's such a thing as too much sleep, but it's usually a sign of something else.
mxk0p TIL that In 1961 Ham the chimpanzee was successfully launched into space which technically means that chimpanzees own the achievement of first Hominid in space.
Z88Da TIL: Lily Allen turns down 200k in Bitcoins for a gig in 2009.
7e5r TIL the Olympic flame in 1976 traveled by radio waves to a laser that lit the cauldron.
W7vRB TIL that, on April 6, 1994, the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi were both assassinated when their plane was shot down. In Burundi, it was seen as a tragic accident and their president was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In Rwanda, it set in motion the Rwandan Genocide.