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TIL that the Soviets technically made it to the moon first (landing an unmanned spacecraft in one piece)

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78AgO TIL the Touhou Project series of bullet hell games is developed almost entirely by one person.
gGkb TIL the cause of blurry vision in the first hour after waking in the morning is small pieces of rheum (eye sleep) unsticking from your eyeball and floating down to be washed away by your tear duct.
OoXyg TIL in UI/UX, menu layouts are officially recognized by food names (ex.••• is called ‘meatball menu’).
8e8EP TIL the Dead Rabbits riot was originally a small-scale street fight between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war, which occurred July 4–5, 1857.
6laZ TIL before R.L. Stine published his award winning children’s book series “Goosebumps” He was contracted to write “Spaceballs: The Book”