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TIL that during the peak of the cold war, one of the tasks given to Niel Armstrong was to place two Soviet medals on the moon to honour their fallen Soviet competitors.

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d77 TIL a lawyer used his will to found a library into which no woman would be allowed, nor would the works of any women enter.
KYl6R TIL conspiracy is against the law and just one move to enact the plan is enough to get you convicted.
pDVb TIL that when you get motion sickness, it’s the result of your brain being tricked into thinking you have been poisoned. The discrepancy between your body feeling motion but not seeing it causes you to vomit the non-existent neurotoxin or poison
OOlY TIL that the graffiti artist that painted Facebook’s first office in 2005 was paid in shares, and is now worth over $200 million.
x6LED TIL German nationalists in the 1930s created their own version of physics because real physics was too Jewish.