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TIL The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, etched his daughter Tracy’s initials — T D C — into the dust

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d84WK TIL Scientists have found that children who learn Mandarin—a tonal language—as babies are more likely to have perfect pitch than those raised to speak English. The finding supports the idea that “babies can acquire perfect pitch as part of learning a language.”
loXMr TIL EA had to do a mass recall of the video game 'Tiger Woods 99', because somebody hid an entire episode of South Park inside it
grxK8 TIL Dashrath Manjhi, the "Mountain Man," spent 22 years carving a 110-meter path through a mountain using just a hammer and chisel. Motivated by grief after his wife died due to a long route to the hospital, he shortened the journey from 55 km to 15 km.
mx8Rv TIL that Leicester City Council in England was forced to admit that it was 'not ready' for a zombie invasion by a concerned citizen.
X0yk TIL the President has a blood bank, with his own blood type, in the trunk of his car