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TIL that Neil Armstrong claims he said “one small step for A man” when he set foot on the moon and that audio analysis of the recording backs that up and it’s been misquoted this entire time.

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R7EA9 TIL in WWII, the Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany became one of the Western Allies greatest and highest-level sources in Berlin, offering up information on the invasion of the Soviet Union, German defenses at the Atlantic Wall, and more...without ever knowing his cables had been decrypted
yVvoM TIL that author Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin) and Mark Twain (Huckleberry Finn) were next door neighbors.
x6b50 TIL that the role of Ruby Rhod in The Fifth Element almost went to Prince rather than Chris Tucker.
eA86 TIL that after seeing it hit a low point in 2009, Domino’s Pizza saw their stock grow 233 percent within a year after changing their pizza recipe.
j6jKQ TIL that the Eurovision Song Contest 1969 had 4 winners: France, Netherlands, Spain and UK