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TIL When Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed first time on the Moon, they honored as a Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin by leaving behind one of his medals…

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xVj5D TIL that there's a font called Times Newer Roman which looks exactly like Times New Roman but is a tiny bit bigger so it looks like you wrote more.
xVayb TIL that back in 1984, religious fanatics in Iran sent children marching over minefields to clear them. They got plastic keys that would open the gates of heaven for them. Later, they also gave them blankets so corpse parts wouldn't be blown everywhere.
9bmB TIL that in a 2002 Muppet Christmas movie where Kermit sees the world as if he never existed, the twin towers are visible.
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