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TIL Neil Armstrong's parents were on a game show called "I've Got a Secret" in 1962. In the episode, Neil Armstrong's parents' secret was that on that day, their son was chosen to be an astronaut. The host asked Armstrong's mom how she would feel if he would be the first man on the moon.

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GvDG TIL the actor who played the dying Maurice Fisher in Inception, Pete Postlethwaite, was really dying of cancer. He died 5 months after the film’s release.
69Yn7 TIL: The modern pentathlon consists of fencing , freestyle swimming, equestrian show jumping, laser pistol shooting, and cross country running. The event was first held in 1912, inspired by the traditional pentathlon held during the ancient Olympics.
aw0gL TIL Chinese courts convict more than 99.9 per cent of defendants
OovNg TIL the integral of the secant formula, important in cartography, has been found accidentally when a mathematician was running through numerical approximations known at the time and recognized they matched ln(|tan(phi/2 + pi/4)|). It took 28 more years for someone find a formal proof
R79M7 TIL in 2015 Tbillisi, Georgia was flooded. A result of flooding was the destruction of the Tbilisi Zoo, leaving half of its animal inhabitants either dead or on the loose. An escaped African penguin was found at the Red Bridge border crossing with Azerbaijan, having swam 60 km south from Tbilisi.