The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that pilot-cosmonautYuri Gagarin, the first human in space and first to orbit the Earth, ejected from his descending spacecraft at an altitude of about 7,000 metres (23,000 ft)?
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Should change the main image, doesn’t show him well he is a wonderful citizen who does not deserve to be obscured like that … ~2025-42388-34 (talk) 17:57, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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