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TIL that while Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon.

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X0rlE TIL in 1966, thousands of Igbo people in Nigeria were massacred in a pogrom. So the Igbo people seceded from Nigeria in 1967 and formed the independent nation of Biafra, resulting in the Nigerian government deliberately starving millions of people in Biafra to death
6E9GJ TIL Puerto Rico is only 100 miles across
4XQPb TIL: Spirit Rover got a significant extension to its mission on Mars when it's solar panels were scrubbed of dust by a passing dust devil in 2005.
a84xZ TIL that Police Squad, forerunner to The Naked Gun, was cancelled by ABC because casual audiences couldn't keep up with the rate of jokes, claiming "the viewer had to watch it in order to appreciate it", stated by TV Guide as being "the most stupid reason a network ever gave for ending a series"
rRaOd TIL the popularity of cats as pets was largely influenced by one man in Edwardian England, and he was clinically insane.