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TIL in 1961 a puppy from one of the first dogs to survive a trip into space was given to Carolyn Kennedy as a gift from Nikita Khrushchev

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RbW4 TIL “goodbye” is actually a contraction for “God be with ye.”
JYBYm TIL in May 2006, over 300 Portuguese school children received medical attention for an illness which caused rashes and shortness of breath. The illness was later cited as being a case of mass hysteria caused by an episode of a soap opera which dealt with a deadly virus outbreak in a school.
b6vm4 TIL leading supercomputer scientist Satoshi Matusoka would pursue his career path on the advice of his friend, Satoru Iwata, after the two worked on early NES titles together
QNgVe TIL that actor Sterling Hayden (Johnny Guitar, The Killing) was an OSS agent during World War II under the alias 'John Hamilton'. His work with Yugoslav partisans influenced him to briefly join the Communist Party, but he left quickly and later named names before the HUAC.
jNvYv TIL : Women distinguish colors better and Men excel at tracking fast moving objects