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TIL 11 of the 12 men who walked on the moon were Boy Scouts

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Egxbd TIL Ruth Coker Burks, "AIDS angel" of Arkansas, who accepted 65k in GoFundMe donations, may have exaggerated her story
GK6G TIL Kanye West sampled a song by Aphex Twin, tried to avoid paying for it and claim he had written it, and when Aphex offered to redo the sample for him, the response was, “It’s not yours, it’s ours, and we’re not even asking you anymore.”
E1Ek7 TIL Singing 'My Way' by Frank Sinatra is banned in Karaoke Bars in the Philippines because people have been murdered while singing it. It is unknown why.
earE TIL: The Ramones debut was only certified gold in April 2014, 38 years after its release and three months before the final member on the album died.
eOeE TIL: It took 300 years for the Giant Tortoise to get a Latin species designation because they where so delicious that no one survived the voyage back to Europe without being eaten by the humans transporting them.