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TIL that the trajectory of the first American manned spaceflight was calculated by an African-American woman. She was so good at computations that she was asked to check the work of the computers when they were first used by NASA to calculate John Glenn’s flight path.

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WkVrX TIL Mark Henry has the world record for combined lifts of snatch, clean&jerk, squat, bench press and deadlift totaling 3324.5 lbs all in drug tested competitions. Making him arguably the strong man to have ever lived.
gra9X TIL the BBC released a 'Green Book' in 1949 to define comedy guidelines. Among some of the banned topics were jokes about fig leaves and vulgar use of the word 'basket'.
enk6 TIL a museum in Boston has not removed empty frames of stolen paintings from the walls after an art theft in 1990. The art stolen is worth 500 million, the largest property theft ever.
P15MV TIL Shirley Temple hated the popular mocktail made with grenadine named after her, calling it "Too sweet!". In 1988 she filed a lawsuit to stop a bottled version from using her name.
wZBJ TIL: “In France, nearly 96% of high schools…have condom vending machines”