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TIL that Buzz Aldrin was known among his fellow astronauts to be very difficult to work with, to the point that Neil Armstrong was offered the chance to replace Aldrin with someone else for the Apollo 11 Moon landing. Armstrong thought it over for a day before choosing to stick with Aldrin.

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nkAW TIL that “Paris Syndome” is a psychological disorder whereby Japanese tourists visiting Paris for the first time experience such severe culture shock that they become ill.
7r4ep TIL: Due to their thick, muscular tail, Kangaroos cannot walk forward or backward. They can only jump forward.
a8eBM TIL in Qatar, there are 3.39 men for every woman, making it the country with the most men per woman in the world (excluding the Vatican, which only has men as inhabitants).
6O7X TIL that NYC has the highest concentration of nesting peregrine falcons in the world
Lv49 TIL after the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was announced in 1992, all 72,000 tickets sold out in three hours, even though no performers were announced besides the remaining members of Queen.