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

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KbA6 TIL that a Swedish man survived for two months in a car that had been snowed over. He ate only snow, and survived due a “igloo effect”.
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KOabB TIL about Mitsuyasu Maeno, a Japanese porn star who got so mad at a corrupt politician for betraying far right nationalists and violating ancient samurai code that he kamikazed a plane into his house
j6jE TIL that the U.S. Navy lent the Village People a ship for a music video, hoping they would use it as a recruitment tool.
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