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TIL that Laika, a dog and the first living organsm in space, was not brought back to earth, and died in space

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D11Lp TIL of the "Just Missed it Club," a group of people who, for one reason or another did not sail on the Titanic. One of these members was Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, son of the late shipping and railroad mogul Cornelius Vanderbilt. He died in the Lusitania disaster 3 years later.
GQog TIL U.S. Military Working Dogs have ranks: they are always one rank above their handler, so that hurting one intentionally would have the same consequences as striking an officer
VMmaQ TIL when Bill Gates was in high school, he and his friend Paul Allen would hack the scheduling system so that Gates was the only boy in classes full of girls.
lkAK TIL that the 3 best selling videogames of all time are Tetris, Minecraft and Wii Sports.
e0lgL TIL that the reason there was a talking robot in Rocky 4 was because Stallone used that robot at home to help his autistic son, so he wrote it into the script so that he could have his son on set with his robot and care worker