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TIL only 12 people have walked on the moon, all within 4 years of each other and not for 52 years

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5VDBR TIL about Ri Jong-yol, a North Korean defector who lived in the South Korean consulate for two months after escaping during the International Math Olympiad in Hong Kong.
9wAbM TIL: the majority of sold/produced oysters have an extra set of chromosomes making them sterile.
D1A1j TIL that Häagen-Dazs has no ties to Denmark. Reuben Mattus, its inventor, named the company as such and printed a map of Denmark on the box in the 1960s because he believed that the foreign connection would appeal to American customers.
VBk6G TIL: Cher Ami Was a WWI Hero & Also a Pigeon
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