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TIL Neil Armstrong while in the USSR collected a handful of soil from outside a Ukrainian man's house in Siberia to acknowledge that man's contribution to Apollo-11 Moon Mission

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WdG8 TIL the first time a top hat was worn in public, it caused a riot. According to reports, people booed, dogs barked, women fainted, and a small boy suffered a broken arm. The man charged with breaching the peace and ordered to pay a £50 fine.
GEmQ TIL pornography is legal in the US even though prostitution is not, because it is illegal to pay one explicitly for sex, but the participants in a film/photo are paid to act and are protected under the first amendment to take part in sexual acts as part of the act.
LkNdd TIL someone has looked for and found a single needle hidden in a haystack. Done by hand, it took Sven Sachsalber 18 hours to complete this task at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
e01VE TIL of Plennie L. Wingo who walked backwards from Santa Monica, California to Istanbul, Turkey in 1931 and still holds the Guiness record for the greatest extent of reverse pedestrianism.
D1X9J TIL about a house made from the tombstones of 2,200 soldiers