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TIL Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name is Moon.
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TIL that people who stay up later are likely to be more intelligent, but have lower grades than morning people
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TIL That in 1997 the Taliban were in Texas to discuss the building of oil pipelines across Afghanistan
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TIL that Henry Allingham, one of the last surviving veterans of WWI and one-time oldest man on earth, was called away from eating lunch to design the key countermeasure to Nazi magnetic mines - he did this in only 9 days. He attributed his longevity to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women."
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TIL about Kummakivi, a large balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland.
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TIL In 2014, a woman was arrested for printing $20k fake bills at home. She took $5 bill with specific watermark, soaked them in degreaser, used toothbrush to scrub off the link and then printed scanned images of $50 or $100 bills over them.