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TIL a man was sentenced to life in prison for lending his car to a friend who murdered someone during a burglary

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KPW6 TIL Bart Sibrel lured Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, to a hotel to interview him for a documentary. Sibrel, poking Aldrin with a bible, called him a “thief, liar and coward”, demanding he swear the moon landing wasn’t staged. Instead, Aldrin punched Sibrel, and was not prosecuted.
RpWw TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today
4kK8R TIL that J.M.W Turner once had himself tied to the mast of a steamboat in order to experience a snow storm so that he could paint it. This is what inspired his work Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth.
xVnlB TIL 90% of Wikiipedia editors are male
X0jG8 TIL Eddie Adams, the man behind the famous Saigon Execution photo, regretted taking the photo later in life. He saw the executioner as a hero, as the prisoner allegedly killed six children and an elderly woman. He personally apologized to the executioner for the impact it had on him and his family.