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TIL Lord Byron's character Don Juan is properly pronounced "don jew-one"

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Rn17 TIL when you book a flight online airline companies track your cookies and raise prices if you have been looking for flights
GG0g TIL NVIDIA digitally rendered the moon landing, which revealed why Buzz Aldrin seemed too brightly illuminated on the moon landing picture: he was illuminated by light reflected from the Moon’s surface and Armstrong’s spacesuit
EKN7 TIL: Elvis never toured outside of America because his manager was wanted for murder in Europe
gAAA TIL that in 2011, a Russian woman woke up at her funeral only to die of a heart attack from the shock minutes later.
rayx TIL anti-personnel land mines are specifically designed NOT to kill enemy combatants, but to maim. Thus, increasing the logistical support needed to counter it.