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TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was “Moon”

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M7OWB TIL Filipino movie star Corazon Noble was bayoneted 9 times by WWII Japanese soldier while trying to protect her 10 mo baby, who died after being sliced open 3 times, then helped testify in the postwar crime trials, and is still alive today.
8aVY4 TIL that January is named after Pagan God Janus. He is deity of new beginnings and transitions. He is two faced. Older face is the year that has come to an end. Younger face is the New Year we look forward to.
mvlv TIL when you smile with your eyes it’s known as a Duchenne smile and genuinely smiling in this way i.e. the more muscles you use when you smile, the happier you will be whatever you are doing. (Last paragraph)
E1gAx TIL that 19-yo Tom Lyle Williams created the mascara "Maybelline" in 1915 when his sister Maybel used a mixture of VaseLINE and coaldust to darken her eyelashes after a mishap.
0wxZ1 TIL that Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 ran on its own operating system and was used at that time to verify if IBM PC clones were 100% compatible.