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TIL Neil Armstrong had to go through US customs when he came back from the moon.

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neW TIL that the Body Mass Index (BMI) was created for a social statistics experiment, and was never intended to be an indicator of health.
eyw4 TIL The comic strip Beetle Bailey has ran since 1950 and is still made by its creator, Mort Walker, at age 91.
9l46 TIL that slaves and serfs made up around three-quarters of the world’s population at the beginning of the 19th century.
9wyW7 TIL about a worm that grows upto 3ft and the only treatment is to pull it out of a body
yQZ48 TIL that in order to legally busk in the Paris Metro, musicians have to successfully audition before a jury and qualify for one of the 250 to 300 licences handed out.