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TIL: Buzz Aldrin although the second man on the moon was the first man to pee while on it.

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ZxOR TIL Shirley Phelps-Roper (Westboro Baptist Church) is banned from entering the UK for “fostering extremism or hatred”.
QmWL TIL Some Chinese companies hire white actors to pretend to be foreign businessmen so that the companies can seem more connected globally.
QN7Ee TIL that King Abdullah of Jordan once appeared on Star Trek: Voyager
RMA6 TIL The Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company ever in world history. With a value of 78 million Dutch Guilders, adjusted to 2012 dollars it was worth $7.4 trillion.
DQdnP TIL the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation holds the record for the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster (MV Dona Paz in 1987 - 4385 dead) before having four more of its ships capsize and total at least 1461 more deaths with hundreds more missing. The shipping line still operates today.