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TIL Bart Sibrel lured Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, to a hotel to interview him for a documentary. Sibrel, poking Aldrin with a bible, called him a “thief, liar and coward”, demanding he swear the moon landing wasn’t staged. Instead, Aldrin punched Sibrel, and was not prosecuted.

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KOV9E TIL that one of the earliest examples of “OMG” being used was in a letter to Winston Churchill in 1917. “I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My God!)” – Lord Fisher
xo8k TIL H.R. Giger (designer for the ‘Alien’ series) has two bars in Europe with the same amazing biomechanical design he used in the Alien movies.
woDO6 TIL Donald Watson, who coined the word vegan, said he got the term from the word vegetarian by taking its first three letters and its last two letters because "veganism starts with vegetarianism and carries it through to its logical conclusion".
JNoB TIL that sleeping supine (on your back) is likely to cause nightmares due to a higher possibility to sleep apnea and because all your vital organs are exposed, making you feel vulnerable,
MD5K TIL, in 1999, a Florida man auctioned his kidney on Ebay. The post read “You can choose either kidney. Buyer pays all transplant and medical costs. Of course only one for sale, as I need the other one to live. Serious bids only.” The bids reached $5.7 million before the company abruptly ended it.