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TIL that Ryan Gosling was offered, and rejected, the chance to become a member of Backstreet Boys

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OomY6 TIL that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent not 1, not 5, but 21 hours, 36 minutes on the moon's surface, after a rest period that included seven hours of sleep.
JDm8 TIL that tsunamis can travel unnoticed in deep water as fast as 500 miles an hour, and cross an entire ocean in less than a day.
4kBZJ TIL Chinese researchers developed a face-identification model to tell giant pandas apart
AWW7 TIL that a completely legal technique called throwaway ticketing can save you a lot of money on airfare!
nOB9 TIL one member of Congress told a NOAA administrator ‘Dr, I don’t need your weather satellites, I have the Weather Channel,’“