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TIL that half of the 12 men who've walked on the moon still are alive, youngest is Charles Duke at 82, oldest is Buzz Aldrin at 87.

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W7dvL TIL pseudoscorpions are a thing
r89d TIL in the 90s the CIA tried to discredit the US Ambassador to Guatemala after they bugged her room and heard her talking lovingly to a woman named Murphy, and accused her of having a lesbian affair with the woman to Washington. There was no affair she was talking to her poodle named Murphy.
jNEJa TIL that when Lil Wayne attempted suicide by a handgun at age 12, he was personally rushed to the hospital by a homicide detective he calls "Uncle Bob." He still keeps in regular contact with him.
l7pA TIL As recently as 10,000 years ago, sloths the size of elephants roamed the Americas.
9wJZG TIL Highway hypnosis, also known as white line fever, is an altered mental state in which a person can drive a car, truck, or other automobile great distances, responding to external events in the expected, safe, and correct manner with no recollection of having consciously done so.