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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

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6Ebdm TIL: Sir James Brooke was a British soldier and adventurer, who founded the Raj of Sarawak in Borneo. Acquiring the title, "Sultanate of Sarawak" - following intervention in an uprising against the Sultan of Brunei. He ruled as the first White Rajah of Sarawak from 1841, until his death in 1868.
A4Yl TIL Michael Jackson got $2 for every Thriller album sold. Which was one of the highest royalty rates of that time.
R7VW8 TIL The meeting of presidents President Taft and Díaz in Mexico in 1909 was the first between a president of the United States and a president of Mexico. Because both presidents were bilingual there was no need for interpreters. No one else attended the meeting where they spent 20 minutes alone
0wEGN TIL Cesare Borgia was the illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI. He was made cardinal after his father's election. Five years later, he would become the first cardinal in history to resign from office.
GANkG TIL in 2011 a man in Egpyt named his daughter Facebook. He chose the name to "to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth," who organized protests with social media, that began on that day, and led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years in power.