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TIL that there was a popular myth in many middle eastern countries that Neil Armstrong had converted to Islam upon hearing the call to prayer on the moon, going as far to require the state department to issue a denial

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NL7b TIL Volvo invented the modern seatbelt in 1959. To save lives, they decided to make it an “open patent,” allowing other manufacturers to use the same design. Every car produced today uses this mechanism, considered one of the major safety inventions of the 20th century, saving over 1M lives.
yVlYe TIL that Mike Tyson’s famous profanity ridden tirade at the press conference for the build up to his fight with Lennox Lewis, was caused after a journalist suggested Tyson should be put in a straight jacket.
Y7Z5x TIL there are, as of 2011, 41,429 native speakers of Ladin, a Romance language mainly spoken in northern Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.
p8VWe TIL Tom Nook from Animal Crossing is not a racoon in the original Japanese translation, but a tanuki (hence his name.) The animal is portrayed as a mischievous trickster in Japanese folklore.
8nnX TIL England helds an annual World’s Biggest Liar competition,where competitors from around the world have five minutes to tell the biggest and most convincing lie they can.