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TIL NASA told Hillary Clinton she couldn’t become an astronaut because she’s a girl.

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p8kgO TIL Grover Cleveland placed his first (illegitimate) child into an orphanage and had the baby's mother committed to an insane asylum in order to cover up the scandal.
OKRY TIL Gladiators carried out product endorsements in the arena. Ridley Scott left this tidbit out of the movie “Gladiator” for fear that this would seem anachronistic.
Opm4 TIL that in 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’.
7rY4P TIL: Samuel Morse invented the telegraph after he received a letter of his wife’s failing health… after she’d died.
gMDkX TIL Grant Imahara from Mythbusters was one of three people who operated the R2-D2's in the Star Wars prequels and he updated all of the electronics on 12 R2 units.