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While researching today
I happened upon this fact. I laughed out loud. I don't know how I ever got through life without knowing this.
"Because the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to journey into space in 1961, peed on the right rear tire of his launchpad bus before entering his capsule, every astronaut and cosmonaut launching from Russia has done the same for good luck ever since. Women bring a bottle of urine to splash on the tire."
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