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TIL that before the Apollo mission, Armstrong and the astronauts couldn’t afford life insurance. So Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins signed hundreds of pieces of memorabilia that could be sold by their families in case of death

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grXnW TIL that journal Nature once published a review of conspiracy theory that the resurrection of Jesus was staged by Pontius Pilate
QJ8gk TIL there is a giant, hot pink slug. It is only found in a single, isolated forest on an extinct volcano in Australia.
JYwQj TIL the Pink Floyd single "Another Brick in the Wall" and the album "The Wall" were banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime
JbZ1 TIL that there is a disease that makes the body repair injuries using bone, over the course of many years, this leads to the victim becoming more and more like a statue.
WXMY TIL that a New Orleans police officer committed an armed robber murdering a uniformed policeman and two employees in the process. One employee hid in the freezer and was spared, the officer returned to “investigate” the crime and was identified by the survivor as the shooter.