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TIL that the first man-made object that was send to space (above the Karman line) was German.

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9Ypw7 TIL The manga creator of Dragon Ball Z, Akira Toriyama, met Jackie Chan, who is a fan of Toriyama's previous works, Dr. Slump. Because of the meetup, Toriyama had the inspiration to create Dragon Balls, then incorporated Jackie Chan's stunts as Dragon Ball fighting moves.
yLXa TIL: Within a few years of retirement, the majority of NFL and NBA players are bankrupt or in severe financial distress.
oRdGY TIL An unexplained phenomenon in neuroscience is the discovery that electrical stimulation in temporal neocortex can cause neurosurgical patients to spontaneously experience memory retrieval. (2012)
BgNpK TIL of Carcinisation. The odd phenomena where things keep evolving into crabs.
16A4X TIL that even after 2 atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan in WW2, the movement against surrender was so strong that there was an attempted coup against the Emperor to stop the capitulation.