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

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oBd4A TIL that Columbus, ship aground on the shores of Jamaica, told the natives that if they didn't give him more supplies, God would eat the moon. He knew an eclipse was coming. It worked.
VBOEZ TIL that, in 1972, several natural nuclear fission reactors were discovered in Oklo, Gabon. They worked around 1.8 to 1.7 billion years BP, continued for a few hundred thousand years, and produced around 100kW of thermal power
69or8 TIL after butchering their oxen for meat and nearly dying of thirst, William Manly led a wagon out of a valley in California and when leaving someone in the group turned to say "Goodbye, Death Valley!" The name stuck.
0PRA TIL that as millions of North Koreans go hungry, the country’s rulers have taken up the habit of having McDonald’s hamburgers flown in daily from China (on North Korea’s national airline).
GYLO5 TIL there are 6 different types of belly buttons and they aren’t the result of the way a doctor cuts the umbilical cord.