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TIL Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union was dissolved. He went up a Soviet citizen and returned a Russian citizen.

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nZL7 TIL Years after Tiger Stadium was demolished in Detroit, a group of fans came together and maintained the playing field. To this day, they still cut the grass and fertilize the field at their own expense. They now have little league games where the Detroit Tigers played for more than 100 years.
W7OOA TIL DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville | Spain
BNMr TIL that Lord of the Rings takes place in the real world, and that we are now in the Seventh Age.
LQ6kr TIL That in 2005 Cheyenne storytellers broke over a century of silence to discuss the Battle of Little Big Horn. According to them the blow which took Colonel Custer from his horse and would lead to his death was struck by Buffalo Calf Road Woman who had accompanied her husband into battle.
87Da TIL The Mysterious Bloop Recorded in The Pacific Ocean in 1997 Is Not a Large Unknown Organic Species, But Rather Enormous Ice-Quakes.