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TIL Neil Armstrong planting the US flag on the moon did not claim the moon for the US because of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that made the moon into a 'global commons'

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LQlgV TIL that in 2009, a 2 year old child was sentenced to life in prison in North Korea, for the crime of having parents who smuggled a bible in to the country.
l7YkG TIL: The band, Journey, had a video arcade game named after them, released in 1983.
P1lbZ TIL that if you get both triple letters on one word in scrabble, you multiply the score for the word by 9, known as the triple-triple
69R6Z TIL "アニメ/Anime" and "コスプレ/Kosupure" (cosplay) were borrowed from English, then later reborrowed back into English
X0468 TIL Earth’s moon is the closest moon to the sun