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TIL Buzz Aldrin brougth Wine and Bread on board Apollo 11 to take Communion ON THE MOON

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rBjw TIL that sometimes when we scratch one part of our body we can feel in another point somewhere else, and this is called Referred Itch
GONG TIL that on a trip to America in 1989, USSR leader Boris Yeltsin decided to stop into a regular US grocery store. After seeing the amount and variety of food available to US consumers, he lamented what communism had “…done to our poor peole”.
jNvAv TIL of Hakkōda Mountains incident where a unit of Imperial Japanese Army soldiers became lost in a blizzard on the Hakkōda Mountains, Japan. The 199 deaths during a single ascent make it the most lethal disaster in the modern history of mountain climbing. From the 11 survivors, 8 needed amputations.
epyk5 TIL: The Jamaica Railway, constructed in 1845 by the British, and was the first line opened to traffic outside Europe and North America. It was the first constructed in the British colonies.
9Ywr6 TIL and I read about Ginkgo Avenue, Meiji Jingu Gaien Park