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Feb 04, 2020

TIL after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Lithuania could not afford to send its men's basketball team to the 1992 Olympics, so the Grateful Dead sent the team colorful, free-flowing tie-dye warm-up jerseys with a flying, dunking skeleton, and the team took the bronze medal.

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Nov 05, 2019

TIL the Soviet space shuttle looked identical to the American shuttle because it was built off of stolen NASA designs.

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Oct 24, 2019

TIL "Jazz on bones" or "Ribs" were bootleg vinyl recordings made from old x-rays with holes burned in the middle from cigarettes. In the 50's and 60's they were a black market method for smuggling banned music into the Soviet Union such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Elvis.

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Jun 15, 2019

TIL: In Cuba, it's legally required for all vehicles to stop and pick up any hitchhikers they encounter on the side of the road.

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May 26, 2019

TIL Despite having little demand for whale products, Soviet whaling fleets illegally (and secretly) killed over 180,000 whales, driving several species to the brink of extinction.

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