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

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R7gd8 TIL The recipe for Tootsie Rolls calls for the previous day’s batch to be mixed in with the new batch each day. Theoretically, this means there’s a bit of the very first Tootsie Rolls in every new roll made today. They were created in 1907.
081A TIL that an Indonesian toddler Aldi Rizal has quit the habit of smoking 40 cigarettes a day but has now got addicted to junk food. He started smoking when he was just 18 months old.
XbpP TIL about thirteen-year-old Yoko Moriwaki the “Japanese Anne Frank,” who kept a diary about her life during WWII. She was killed by the atomic bomb in her home town of Hiroshima and her diary was later published by her brother.
xWD0 TIL that R&B singer Akon founded a solar energy company in Africa. The company employs 5000 people recently closed a $1B credit line.
xyZD TIL About a pilot, who, upon ejecting from his damaged fighter, got stuck in a cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) cloud for over 30mins, caught in updrafts, pelted by hailstones, and almost drowned.