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TIL The first rocket in India was transported on a bicycle and launched from a church

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PYRlJ TIL Church's Fried Chicken was a major supporter of chess in the 1970s, with the San Antonio Church's Fried Chicken Inc. 1st International Chess Tournament in 1972 being considered one of the most important chess tournaments on American soil.
abBb TIL of Johanna Westerdijk, the first female professor in the Netherlands. She told her school teacher she would make enough to pay someone to do her chores, was a noted party animal, and started a tradition of dressing geese in costumes and parading them around at university events.
5VNKB TIL About Elspeth Beard: the first Englishwoman to ride a motorcycle around the world.
XEK7D TIL After officially being prohibited for many years, eating beef in Japan was legalised in 1871 as part of an effort to introduce western culture to the country
x65Gb TIL "Chris-R" from Tommy Wiseau's The Room is an Olympic Athlete