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TIL Buzz Aldrin’s (second person to walk the moon) mother’s maiden name is “Moon.”

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7rNdL Homesick student Kleon Papadimitriou biked 48 days to make it back home to his family during lockdown!
vMBx TIL the clitoris remained “undiscovered” until 1559, when an Italian anatomy professor, Realdo Colombo, documented its existence in his book, De Re Anatomica.
xB5k TIL the price of a single day ticket to Disneyland has more than doubled in the last 10 years
dvjj TIL Lorenzo Music, the Garfield voice actor, volunteered at a suicide hotline. Sometimes a caller would recognize his voice, “My wife left me, I’m broke, I have an incurable disease… Hey, you know you sound like that cat on TV?”
XEJyE TIL that FDR likely did not have polio as is commonly believed. A retrospective analysis conducted in 2003 claimed that there was a 99% chance FDR had Guillain-Barré syndrome instead, which has similar symptoms but was unknown in America at the time.