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TIL Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, has claimed that “aliens have contacted humans several times” on Kerrang radio in 2008

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d81NZ TIL a single Dutch restaurant is blocking Wendy’s from opening in the EU
Lwbm TIL Paula Radcliffe, current marathon world record holder, is an asthmatic
7rgnZ TIL a man bought a golden egg for $13,000 at a sale. It turned out it was an incredibly rare Fabergé egg, once owned by the Emperor of Russia, that had been missing since 1902. It is worth $33,300,000.
jNPnj TIL Herbert Hoover was so fat that his doctor invented Hooverball, where "On a tennis-like court, two teams of three players throw a 6-pound medicine ball back and forth over an 8-foot net." Hoover lost 21 pounds in his term.
ybMp TIL that the 442nd Infantry Regiment, composed almost entirely of Japanese-Americans whose families were interned, became the most decorated unit in the history of the US army during World War II.