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TIL: Playboy is also published in braille. It eventually became the sixth most popular periodical in the U.S. National Library Service for the Blind’s Braille magazine catalog

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lo8Jr TIL that the first person to die during a space mission was Vladimir Komarov in 1967. He knew the capsule was unsafe and that he would not be returning alive so he demanded an open casket funeral to send a message to the government officials who had caused his death
KOwK9 TIL In Tennessee Lab Technicians get paid $250 if the results of the blood they test leads to a DUI conviction
v1owx TIL that the city of Doncaster has road gritters named “Gritsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney”, “David Plowie”, “Brad Grit”, “Gritney Spears”, and “Usain Salt”.
wx41 TIL Gays & lesbians are literally hunted like animals by packs of people in Russia, and the government condones this behavior
yQ8RM TIL the shot in Jurassic Park where the cup of water vibrates, heralding the arrival of the T-Rex, was actually an extremely difficult shot to get right. They eventually got it by feeding a guitar string through the car, down to the ground and someone plucked a specific chord to get the effect.