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TIL that Vietnamese revolutionary Lê Đức Thọ became the only person to ever refuse the Nobel Peace Prize when, in 1973, the Prize was jointly awarded to both Thọ and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

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LGLv TIL in 2002 a few NASA interns stole nearly all of the moon rocks collected from all Apollo missions, then had sex on them
ndnY TIL that the ban of leaded gasoline is believed to have been a major cause for falling violent crime rates in the United States
x6Ae5 TIL That Amelia Earhart had a copilot when she disappeared, his name was Fred Noonan.
d88OQ Screeeeeeeech!
w0N8 TIL the Nazi’s used special buses that had their exhaust fed into the passenger compartment where they transported mentally disabled people in order to kill them.