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TIL That Neil Armstrong was carrying pieces from the Wright Brothers first plane while on the surface of the moon

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dDJ18 Til about the ongoing (!) abuse of the former 'comfort women'
rNmVo TIL: 2nd POTUS Adams never owned a slave and declined on principle to use slave labor
8BX8 TIL in the German dub of Die Hard, the names of the German terrorists were changed to English names.
5MaD TIL In the early days of FedEx, CEO Fred Smith took the company’s last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company’s $24,000 fuel bill.
W7DwY TIL William Shatner’s father, Joseph Shatner, was born in Austria in 1898.