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TIL Sally Ride had a female partner for more than 25 years, making her the first known LGBT astronaut.

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vPbox TIL that just 24 hours after 9/11, 5 players of Chelsea FC went on a five-hour drinking binge in an hotel packed with American tourists stranded by flight cancellations, just after a match they were supposed to play in Bulgaria had been called off as a mark of respect for victims of the attacks
PY1re TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer's tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas 'didn't want her looking too aggressively feminine'. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: 'No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire'.
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