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TIL Buzz Aldrin had to fill out a customs form upon his return from the moon.

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PYWDV [TIL] William Chester Minor cut off his penis and contributed a lot to the Oxford English Dictionary.
78r9x TIL the novel "Dr. Awkward & Olson in Oslo" by Lawrence Levine is a 31,954 word long palindrome.
m1vGy TIL the standard artwork on playing cards that I personally have known since childhood has remained relatively unchanged since 1862
GYJpj TIL An edible fruitcake was discovered 100 years after British explorer Robert Falcon Scott died of starvation and exposure while attempting to become the first person to reach the South Pole in 1912
6v4m TIL in 1910, brothers Bud and Temple Abernathy traveled alone on horseback from their ranch in Oklahoma to NYC. Their cross-country journey took 74 days to complete, spanning 2000 miles. After arriving, they bought a car and drove back home. Bud was five years old at the time; Temple was nine.