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TIL That Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin left one of Yuri Gagarin’s cosmonaut medals on the moon to pay tribute to his accomplishment as the world’s first man in space

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NZo8 TIL Muhammad ratified a document giving Christians freedom to practice their faith without interference from Muslims.
m5BE TIL Chrisopher Lee was a special forces commando, and corrected Peter Jackson on the actual sound one makes when being stabbed in the back.
VMOBk TIL that there is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of Ice which started in 1990 and is rebuilt every year.
N7KlP TIL that Elizabeth Olsen has been an atheist since the age of 13.
Rp57 TIL 700 years ago a monk scraped off the ink of old parchment to write a new prayer book. Recent discoveries find that the paper he erased was a manuscript written by Archimedes that laid out the heart of Calculus thousands of years before Newton was even born.