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TIL the youngest person to walk on the moon is Charles Duke. He was born in 1935

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w78M TIL that Pakistan’s parliament is the only parliament in the world to be fuelled solely by solar power.
Vaym TIL that the Jeddah Tower, which is currently under construction in Saudi Arabia and will be the tallest building in the world upon its completion, is being constructed by the Saudi Binladin Group, which is owned by the family of Osama bin Laden, who destroyed two of the world’s largest buildings.
XEZ4r TIL After his moon landing, Neil Armstrong was put in quarantine for several weeks. Scientists were afraid that he may have picked up a foreign bacteria while he was in space. He spent the majority of that quarantine time playing his ukulele.
9wYOr TIL the US Navy proposed a gigantic mobile base for supporting operations beyond friendly territory called the mobile offshore base (MOB).
XAMr TIL the castle from the Rocky Horror Picture Show is now a hotel that you can spend the night in!