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Today I learned Zambia, I country in Southern Africa tried to go to Mars in an oil drum

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E1DM7 TIL of a woman named Olympe de Gouges who advocated for equal rights between men and women in revolutionary France. She was guillotined.
9arX TIL men had to swim nude in all grades of public school gym class up until the early 1970s.
J1mj4 TIL with his dad totally against it, 19-yr-old Fabio Lanzoni moved to the US & within 48 hrs of arriving he walked into the Ford modeling agency without an appointment & walked out with a $150K contract. The next day he was hired for the launch of Gap Inc. Then began to pose for 15 book covers a day
YD17 TIL that there are 3,778 Americans claiming Asylum in other countries because they feel persecuted by America
oLpK TIL during the LA riots a group of Korean American business owners fought against looters and rioters with shotguns and semi-automatic weapons from the rooftops of their business.