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TIL: Fashion designer Oleg Cassini attempted to issue a cease-and-desist to NASA/JPL for naming the Cassini spacecraft, not realizing it was named after 18th century Astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini

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4k6Aa TIL This is Rakesh Sharma. Alive and well, He was the first Indian to go to space in 1984, making India the 14th nation in the world to send a man to Outer Space.
4kNYR TIL of Charles Upham who received the Victoria Cross twice in WWII. He is one of only 3 people to have received the award twice and the only combat soldier to ever have done so.
o1ZE TIL The Boston Celtics have won slightly more than one out of every four NBA Championships, making them the most successful sports franchise in North American history.
WGVN TIL there were approximately 70 mass shootings in the US between 1982 and 2012. Just under 80% of the weapons used were obtained legally and the majority of perpetrators had signs of previous mental illness.
XE60X TIL that the ethnic Samaritans of the Bible still exist in modern-day Israel. They number about 820 people and still practice a distinctly ancient form of Judaism.