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TIL Neil Armstrong always insisted he said, "That's one small step for a man" when he landed on the moon.

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wolv6 TIL: Every night, since 886 AD, the Wakemen of Ripon, England, blow horns in the evening to "set the watch." The tradition is from Ripon's first citizen, the "Wakeman," who was responsible for crime prevention in the city from 9 pm until dawn and had to compensate victims of burglary.
1aRWO TIL in December 1982, when Paul Allen was sick with cancer, he overheard Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing his lack of contributions and how to dilute his equity by offering stock options to other employees and shareholders. Allen confronted them and quit a little bit later.
v16aL TIL that Caltech researchers found evidence of a ninth planet which orbits the Sun 20 times farther than Neptune where one full orbit takes between 10,000 to 20,000 years to complete.
W70E9 TIL a 1-kilometer cube cumulous cloud would weigh about 1.1 million pounds.
4keWN TIL While the Confederacy used the strongest cipher available during the Civil War, the Vigenère cipher, the Union consistently cracked it. This was because the Confederates only ever used three key phrases: "Manchester Bluff", "Complete Victory" and, as the war came to a close, "Come Retribution".