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Today's fun fact:
The first person in space, Yuri Gagarin, returned to Earth hundreds of miles off course. A woman and her granddaughter were planting when he landed and thought he was a spy. After convincing them he was a fellow Russian, they let him borrow a horse to ride to the nearest telephone
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Today's fun fact:
In the 19th century, the British government mandated that relief could not be "free," and that conditions in workhouses had to be worse than conditions available outside so that there was a deterrence to claiming poor relief. To receive food or a pittance of wages, starving people were forced to build stone roads in remote rural areas where no transportation was needed. These are still visible in Ireland today and are known as "Famine Roads."
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Today's fun fact:
Suggested by @rigid bronze!
Once seen as gendered in the U.S., 72% of males aged 18 to 34 now incorporate makeup into their grooming routines
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