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TIL Tania Head faked being a 9/11 survivor and led a survivors' group. She also faked her suicide after getting caught

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xVyKg TIL shortly after returning from the moon Buzz Aldrin began to suffer from alcoholism and depression. "I wanted to resume my duties, but there were no duties to resume. There was no goal, no sense of calling, no project worth pouring myself into."
XwB6 TIL Twitter makes bank with every company that wants to advertise on on the site. A company pays $0.50-$2 every time a Twitter user interacts with their promoted tweet. When a company promotes in the “Trending” section, they pay $200k per day.
YpQEA TIL Giraffe can run extremely fast - at a gallop they reach a speed of up to 60 km/h, which ranks them among the fastest animals in the savanna, right after the representatives of the cat family.
gM8MW TIL of the phrase "Eddie would go" about the Hawaiian legend and lifeguard Eddie Aikau who was famous for surfing and saving people from big waves on the north shore. When no one would Eddie would go.
VMKyB TIL - While other birds have to sit on nests and use their body heat to incubate their eggs, incubator birds are more like engineers and have a very good solution. They pile plant debris on their eggs and make use of the heat of composting to hatch their eggs, essentially creating a mini greenhouse.