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TIL the Soviet Union made a Space Shuttle remarkable like the US’s counterpart

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E1dvp TIL that the Triceratops possessed a ball-and-socket joint at the base of its skull, not found in any dinosaur or any mammal today. This joint would have allowed it to maneuver its head almost 360 degrees, allowing movement to any direction in a fraction of a second.
1rwX TIL Tim Duncan future hall of famer refused to enter the NBA sacrificing millions, just so he could grant his dead mothers last wish of him graduating and getting a college degree
bavj TIL Hockey players score higher in spatial skills than than any other athlete.
pQo4 TIL in the Winter War, the Soviets, while bombing the Finns, claimed they were air-dropping food to the “starving people of Helinski”. The Finnish people dubbed the Soviet bombs “Molotov bread baskets”, and in return called their firebombs Molotov cocktails, as “a drink to go with the food.”
5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”