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TIL Julia Child loved hotdogs

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VBRYQ TIL Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was the first man to die during a space-flight. He volunteered to pilot a hastily built and fatally flawed spacecraft alone in order to save the life of the man who would replace him if he refused — his close friend and first man in space, Yuri Gagarin
V19B TIL - The first webcam watched a coffee pot. It allowed researchers at Cambridge to monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks.
jp8E TIL- In 1948 a Japanese bank robber killed 12 bank employees by dressing as a doctor and requesting to inoculate them against dysentery. They complied and 10 died immediately due to cyanide poisoning. He took the equivalent of 720 dollars.
ADAWo TIL the Beatles wouldn’t play for segregated audiences and were the first foreign group to do so.
vPyPD TIL there are only 14 possible (Gregorian) Calendars but it takes 26 years to cycle through them. If you start with 9 different consecutive calendars it takes another 17 years to “collect” the other 5.