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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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BrQBW TIL that in 2001 a cat was cleared of the smothering death of a baby. Nicola Payne had found the cat lying on her boy's face when she went into his bedroom. She tried frantically to save him, but he was dead. Pathologists found that sudden infant death syndrome --not the cat, was the cause of death.
788bp TIL That the 'con' in con-artist means 'confidence'
7b4p TIL that because maple syrup doesn’t always look good on camera, many food advertisers replace it with motor oil in commercials.
VBvwZ TIL that astronaut Owen Garriott pulled off an epic prank during Skylab 3. He smuggled a tape recording of his wife’s voice onboard and later played it to Mission Control, making them think she had somehow visited the space station to deliver home-cooked food.
QNM7d TIL the Cagots were an outcast minority found in the west of France and northern Spain. Persecuted for centuries, they were not distinguished by any religious, ethnic or physical attributes and were just hated for who they are.