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TIL in 1962 the US detonated a nuclear bomb in space

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KYdnB 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
J119l 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.
8gxV TIL Ronda Rousey believes that the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and the 20 children who were murdered there was a government conspiracy
0wVy1 TIL same-sex relations have been legal in the Netherlands since 1811.
v1Va4 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.