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TIL the rotational axis of the Moon lies within Shackleton Crater.

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5eVp TIL That Amish men shave their mustache due to its long association with military tradition.
690W8 TIL that Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana defected to the US in the 1960s and was, for a time, involved in a cult headed by Frank Lloyd Wright's widow.
6E7xW TIL of Wally Funk, who became an aviator at 20, and in 1961 volunteered to be part of the Women in Space program. She scored higher on tests than future astronaut John Glenn. The program was cancelled. Today, at 86, she continues to fly, and has a ticket to fly into space with Virgin Galactic.
woZgP TIL there is a Vietnamese Bird Poop Frog I can keep as a pet.
j64Qa TIL that in 1972 a 33-year-old Hungarian geologist attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead". Prior to this, he had moved to Rome intending to be recognised as Christ by the Pope.