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TIL the first Japanese person in space was a heavy smoking, whiskey-drinking, middle-aged news anchorman.

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vlVR TIL in December 2002 a 60-year-old mechanic was fined for failing to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency that he’d removed his motorcycle from the road. He refused to pay and claimed that he had the right by medieval law to choose a trial by combat with a “champion” nominated by the DVLA
yVGo8 TIL Barbie’s physical appearance was modeled on the German Bild Lilli doll, a risqué gag gift for men based upon a cartoon character featured in the West German newspaper Bild Zeitung.
P115e TIL in 1775 South Carolina had a Northern part and Southern part with Georgia right in the middle.
Pr8G TIL for a Make A Wish request, Journey visited a boy suffering from cystic fibrosis. They let him be the first person outside of the band hear the song, Only the Young. The next day the boy died.
Vvek TIL in 1862, Abraham Lincoln wrote to the cotton workers of Manchester, UK to thank them for their stance on anti-slavery.