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TIL When Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) heard the price of his album in Australia, he told fans to “steal and steal and steal some more and give it to all your friends and keep stealin’.”

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Yx7G TIL that while Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.
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DQdjY TIL that Matthias Erzberger, who helped negotiate the armistice that ended the First World War, was assassinated at a spa in 1921 by former members of the Imperial German Navy,