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TIL: My Chemical Romance (MCR) Performed on the kids show, Yo Gabba Gabba.

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E14wx TIL I learned of Grandma Gatewood who hiked the 2,200 mile Appalachian trail at 55 bringing only Converse shoes, an army blanket and a plastic shower curtain after reading about it in a magazine and telling her children she was going for a walk. She hiked it again at 72 and 75.
xVNgB TIL The Antonov A-40 was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane. The tank had to be stripped most of it's armament, ammunition and headlights, however the prototype still failed.
yVDXe TIL the Federated States of Micronesia under-23 national football team participated in the Pacific Games for the first (and only) time in 2015. They lost all three games with 114 total goals scored against them. They scored 0 goals.
DQ4Gv TIL in the 1600s, a gardener created the first English cabinet of curiosities, "The Ark," an international collection of seeds, bulbs, art, weapons, and other "curiosities," inside a large London house that became the first museum open to the public in England, the Musaeum Tradescantianum.
mDyO TIL Barbie’s original design was based on a German adult gag-gift prostitute doll named Lilli