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TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was “Moon”
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TIL - A human fetus would have to undergo a gestation period of 18 to 21 months to be born at a neurological and cognitive development stage comparable to that of a chimpanzee newborn.
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TIL that in 2013, the British singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner streamed the recording of his album live for 5 weeks. His home studio in East London was set up with 4 cameras, to allow fans to follow every detail of recording the album – with no producer or engineer, only Faulkner and a few guests.
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TIL annually since 1993, Literary Review magazine has presented the Bad Sex in Fiction Award to the author who has written the worst sex scene in a novel. Morrissey won in 2015, and in 2008 John Updike received a lifetime achievement award.
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TIL CIA had an instructions manual for U2 pilots describing what they could eat, so that didn't had the urge to poop while on mission, which often spanned around 9 hours. The plane had no means of disposing the fecal matter.
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TIL Nikola Tesla was obsessed with the number 3 and engaged in a number of compulsive behaviors around it. For example, he would walk around a building three times before entering and he commonly washed his hands three times in a row