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TIL Until 2007, Russian astronauts were issued a sawed off shotgun and machete to fight off Siberian bears and other wildlife upon landing back on Earth. They are now issued a semi-automatic pistol.

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x6N4b TIL U.S. Taxpayers funded re-forestation efforts in Lebanon for the historic Cedar trees
5omD TIL A man who would later become the president of Mormon church once declared, “We will never get a man into space. […] The moon is a superior planet to the earth and it was never intended that man should go there. You can write it down in your books that this will never happen”… in 1961.
JKLQ TIL Blazing Saddles is considered “historically significant” by the Library of Congress because it was the first film from a major studio to have a fart in it
BgxrL TIL The color of your bread tie indicates the day on which the bread was baked
OXEe TIL: In 1919, Chicago Irish gangs in blackface attacked and burned Polish neighborhoods because the Poles weren’t racist enough against blacks.