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TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s last name was Moon.

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VB6Dp TIL: In 2015 Tom Selleck was sued by the Calleguas Municipal Water District for allegedly improperly transferring approximately 1.4 million gallons of water which he used to water his avocado farm. He settled the suit by paying $21,685.55.
nQPr TIL of a horse named Jim who was used to make diptheria anti-toxin. One day Jim got tetanus and by the time anyone noticed 12 children who received his serum had died, leading to the creation of the 1902 Biologics Control Act.
n0x7 TIL hand dryers in public bathrooms are actually the exact opposite of sanitary.
7EwL TIL that in 1946 the United States offered to give up its atomic bomb stockpile and transfer all fissionable material to a United Nations body, to which a Soviet representative said that USSR does not want equality. The Soviet Union wants complete freedom to pursue its own aims as it sees fit".
j65Kv TIL when Olympe de Gouges argued that Louis XVI should not be executed a mob showed up at her house. When she went out to meet them someone grabbed her by her hair and started a mock auction for her head. She offered a "massive bid" which humored the crowd, and they let her go.