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TIL that In 1961 Ham the chimpanzee was successfully launched into space which technically means that chimpanzees own the achievement of first Hominid in space.

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6pPl TIL that Hugh Hefner’s oldest child Christie Hefner is old enough (63) to be his current wife’s (29) mother.
Wk5k8 TIL about the italian revolutionary Nicola Bombacci. He has been the first italian to meet the Russian Bolsheviks, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1921, and one of the best friends and mentors of Benito Mussolini, with whom he was hanged at the end of WWII.
5Y979 TIL in 1894, in the city of Passau, Germany, a local priest saved a four year old boy from drowning when he fell through the ice on a frozen river. According to many reports, historians, and locals from the time, that child was Adolf Hitler.
gMB4D TIL: 6 years after resigning, Nixon testified on behalf of former FBI assistant director Mark Felt at Felt's own trial, and gave money to Felt's defense fund. In 2005 Felt revealed he had been "Deep Throat", Bob Woodward's source while breaking the Watergate scandal that led to Nixon's resignation.
Q9xL TIL when the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn’t upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.