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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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XE74E TIL Wrigley’s was originally a soap company that gifted baking powder with their soap. The baking powder became more popular than the soap so they switched to selling baking powder with chewing gum as a gift. The gum became more popular than the baking powder so the company switched to selling gum.
9wxKB TIL: The Challenger mission in 1986, which exploded live on TV and killed everyone on board, originally planned to have Big Bird as a passenger instead of a civilian teacher.
MAEV TIL that Bart Simpsons hit song “Do the Bartman” was written by massive Simpsons fan, Michael Jackson.
PDoJ TIL: In 1971 the Prince of Laos was caught at a french airport with 123 pounds of pure heroin that he planned on shipping to New York
P158E TIL that a company named BimboBakeriesUSA owns a lot of the major bread brands.