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TIL that astronaut Alan Shepard peed himself minutes before becoming the first American in space.

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9YRY7 TIL that Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh is an avid hunter and that in 1993 during a seven week stay at the Queen's Sandringham estate he shot 10,000 pheasant.
KXRE TIL that Rammstein members had dildos cast from their… members, and sell them as band merch.
j67dQ TIL that Stepan Company is the only business in the United States legally authorized by the DEA to import coca leaves, and Coca-Cola is the sole company permitted to purchase and use them in its products.”
kOXk5 TIL Taj Mahal turns pink at the dawn, white in noon and yellow in the dusk.
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