30 Trivia Tidbits About History

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30 Trivia Tidbits About History

Like your partner in an argument, we’re bringing up the past! But unlike them, we promise that we haven’t been storing these up to use against you. We store them up strictly for knowledge-sharing. So don’t worry, while perusing this list of interesting historical facts, you won’t stumble upon one of your many, many past slip-ups.

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Britain’s First Satellite

Ariel-1, Britain's very first satellite, was put into orbit on April 26, 1962. It was accidentally destroyed weeks later after the US military detonated a 1.4 megaton nuclear weapon called Starfish-Prime in the upper atmosphere. CRACKED.COM

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