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TIL about the International Geophysical Year, a scientific project that marked the renewal of scientific interchange between the East and West during the Cold War. The first successful artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched for the event.

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1Ber TIL Ken Jarecke’s iconic photo of the Gulf War is unknown in America because the AP office in New York censored it. They deemed it was too sensitive and too graphic even for the newspaper editors to see, not even to let them make the decision of what the market they served could see.
X0war TIL the earliest known toy trains were made in the 1850s and powered by alcohol fires and real steam. They had the tendency to start house fires due to their fuel leaking and igniting when the toy fell over. Earlier models had no safety valves and would explode due to excess boiler pressure.
OGY1e TIL Al Capone was only 33 when he was locked away for tax evasion and developed neurosyphilis, leading to his death at 48. Eliot Ness was 27 when he formed the Untouchables--he died in a state of financial ruin in his 50s, likely hastened by his heavy drinking in his later life
p8nwA TIL you are likely descended from royalty, but that doesn’t make you special. Everyone of European descent alive today can claim ancestry from medieval kings and queens based on statistical analysis of their ancestry