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TIL that Netflix produced a show called "Blockbuster". It was a comedy about the last Blockbuster video store trying to convince the community that they provide something big corporations can’t - human connection. The show was canceled after one season.

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4knGo TIL that US Army working dogs (MWDs) “are one rank higher than that of their handler, so that they are accorded the respect due to them”
gMOeW TIL Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, did not live to see the first human to land on the moon.
XEmxk TIL That Snoopy is NASA's official safety mascot. Every astronaut since 1968 has worn a silver Snoopy pin into space; upon return, the astronauts present the pin as a special recognition to a civilian team member who helped keep them safe.
Y7G9G TIL that contrary to expectations most free people of color lived not in the North but in the South, the Upper South specifically, prior to the American Civil War
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