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TIL Butter is a Dairy product
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TIL that the U.S. comic strip character Dennis the Menace was used in Dairy Queen marketing from 1971 to 2001 and that the character was dropped because Dairy Queen felt that children could no longer relate to him.
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TIL that Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel to space on June 16, 1963, when she orbited Earth as part of the Vostok 6 mission. She remains the youngest woman to fly to space, the only female astronaut/ cosmonaut to make a solo space journey.
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TIL there's a people and a language called Anāl
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TIL about millionaire Wellington Burt, who died in 1919 and deliberately held back his enormous fortune. His will denied any inheritance until 21 years after the death of his last surviving grandchild. The money sat in a trust for 92 years, until 12 descendants finally shared $110 million in 2011.
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TIL that’s Kangaroo testicles were stuffed with grass and used as a football by indigenous Australians and the game bore quite the resemblance to Aussie Rules Football.