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TIL that after he walked on the moon and served 21 years in the Air Force retiring as a colonel, Buzz Aldrin sold used cars.

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XaP TIL Evel Knievel has the record for “most bones broken in a lifetime” with 433.
GANkG TIL in 2011 a man in Egpyt named his daughter Facebook. He chose the name to "to express his joy at the achievements made by the January 25 youth," who organized protests with social media, that began on that day, and led to the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years in power.
0KYj TIL that the word oxymoron is an oxymoron itself. It is made up of oxy, meaning sharp, and moron, which means dull.
pYd8b TIL That coconut water, being almost identical to blood plasma, can be used as a plasma substitute. During World War II, many soldiers in the Pacific were saved through emergency transfusion using coconut water as replacement for intravenous plasma.
dD5DQ TIL Beverly Hills was planned as an all-white community with legal agreements preventing non-whites from owning or renting property. These laws also prevented Jewish people from doing the same.