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TIL the Russians had a flying aircraft carrier that actually worked and deployed aircraft from the “mother-ship” that successfully engaged their targets

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gB87 TIL in 2009, Colorado initiated its Family Planning Initiative to provide low-to-no cost birth control to 68 family clinics around the state. Between 2009 and 2013, the state’s teen birth rate dropped by 40%.
6P6w TIL that people only discovered the real shape of the clitoris in 2009
GYML1 TIL it is widely disputed that DJ Kool herc was the sole founding father of hip hop, many people attribute it's foundation to a DJ known as Mario the disco king who predated Kool herc's block parties with his own by three years
PYPdJ TIL James Bond was originally half Scottish half Swiss. Also Flemming named him after an ornithologist as it was the "simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name".
m18GO TIL that during a battle with American troops led by Gen. Custer, Chief Sitting Bull moved within rifle range, methodically filled his pipe, encouraged others to join him, slowly smoked as bullets flew by, and returned unscathed as a display of contempt and courage.