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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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GAkEJ TIL about Shi Yousan, a Chinese general who defected to, and subsequently betrayed, Feng Yuxiang, Chiang Kai-shek, Wang Jingwei, Zhang Xueliang, the CPC, and Japan, in that order. Eventually, when he attempted to defect to Japan again, he himself was betrayed and executed by a subordinate.
KOmgG TIL By 2010, MTV was not focusing on music anymore. As part of their re-branding, they dropped the long-running tagline “Music Television” from their logo, officially ending their music video era.
RWX9 TIL twenty years ago Australian aboriginal suicide rates were equivalent to the national rate but now they are three fold, and in some regions spates of suicide have reached 100 times the national average.
oRZpY TIL the five oldest companies still operating in the world are all Japanese.
NXBEP TIL testicles have taste buds that can taste Umami.