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TIL A town exists in Florida with a name so offensive, it had to be taken off of maps and public records

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b9Akp TIL, A Soviet dog called Strelka was the first to go to space and come back alive. She had 6 puppies and Nikita Khrushchev gifted one of them to JFK. (It was checked for listening devices first).
KOwAR TIL that a toilet break once sank a submarine. When the captain of U-1206 was unable to operate the toilet, he called in an engineer, who flipped the wrong switch, causing water to flood in and filled the ship with chlorine gas. The ship surfaced, was spotted, and was attacked and scuttled.
EkpP TIL: 1968, Olympic long jumper Bob Beamon’s first attempt exceed the limit of the official measuring equipment. It took over 15 minutes before a distance was posted, and only then did he realize he had broken the world record by nearly 2 feet (0.6m).
X7wX TIL theres a DC Character from the 80s who got his powers from Cocaine. His only weakness? Cocaine Addiction
0d4dv TIL in 2007 a player entered a Yu-Gi-Oh card tournament with a 2222-card deck to demonstrate the game needed a deck card limit. The rule was changed to set a limit of 60 cards per deck.