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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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N7rVJ TIL the song Iron Man is unrelated to the Marvel character. It’s about a time traveler seeing an apocalyptic future. Back to the present, he is turned into steel by a magnetic storm rendering him mute. He warns people about the apocalypse but when they can't understand him, he causes the apocalypse.
e0Mdb TIL Freddie Oversteegen, her sister, and friend Hannie Schaft lured German soldiers during WW2 to the woods under the pretense of a romantic overture and then killed them
KOrZG TIL that Hulk Hogan has lost 3 inches in height due to surgeries stemming from his wrestling career and the physical impact from wrestling moves. He started his career at 6'7, and over 30 years later is now 6'4
ZpKrD TIL on March 1st, 1504, Christopher Columbus convinced the inhabitants of Jamaica to keep provisioning him by threatening to take away the moon.
0b6N TIL limpet teeth are the strongest known biological material.