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TIL Buzz Aldrin punched a moon-landing hoax believer in the face.

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VBkjD TIL: In 1998, American, British and Canadian air forces all failed to shoot down a rogue weather balloon from Canada. The balloon was 25 storeys high and as wide as several football pitches. Two CF-18 fighters fired more than 1,000 rounds into it off the coast of Newfoundland.
QN0Ad TIL that the world's quietest room, an anechoic chamber located at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, can drive people to the point of madness. The room is so quiet people can hear their own blood flowing and even the sound of their organs functioning, which can be disorienting and unsettling.
x6Mag TIL in 1868 King Mindon of Myanmar commissioned the Burmese-language Buddhist canon to be written on 729 stone tablets, each 1 meter tall. Each tablet is housed in its own structure at Kuthodaw pagoda in Mandalay. Although now black, the letters were originally inscribed in gold.
Wky5A TIL that, in France, it is illegal to to publish photographs of a handcuffed suspects, as they are not to appear guilty until proven so.
6EoEW TIL The first streaming music service started in 1897. Users in New York could pick up their phones and connect to the Telharmonium, a central hub that would pipe music being played live by two musicians playing 24 hours a day.