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TIL in 1962 the US detonated a nuclear bomb in space
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TIL, after U.S. President Garfield was shot, his doctors were so negligent and gave him such a bad infection that his assassin openly confessed at trial to the shooting, but argued that Garfield’s doctors had actually done the killing
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TIL that in 1983, Hasbro executives travelled to to the Tokyo Toy Show to look for new toys they could release in the United States. After finding a series of transforming robot toys, they teamed with Marvel Comics to create a comic book and animated series--"Transformers"--to sell the toys.
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TIL Ronda Rousey believes that the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and the 20 children who were murdered there was a government conspiracy
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TIL same-sex relations have been legal in the Netherlands since 1811.
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TIL of Alexandra David-Néel, an explorer who snuck into Tibet in the 1920s to learn about Buddhism when it was closed to outsiders. She lived until 101 and her writings influenced Jack Kerouac amongst others.