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TIL that HMS Victory is older than the USA

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vLej TIL that Astronaut Buzz Aldrin had to fill out a military travel voucher for reimbursement for his mission to the Moon and was reimbursed $33.31.
p81dG TIL one can apparently buy gold pills that will turn your poop gold
9YOXB TIL that Jennings Lang, the guy behind the 1970's Airport movies, had an affair with actress Joan Bennett. When her husband found out in 1951 he fired a gun in to his testicles.
loO4A TIL that the first documented case of a ‘mail order bride’ / ‘catfishing’ was in 1539, when Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves based on a painting of her he was sent. He found her so unattractive that he tried to send her back to Germany, and when he couldn’t, divorced her 6 months later.
KOrOQ TIL that people with German ethnicity were expelled from eastern Europe the years after WW2. Approximately 12 million people were forcefully transferred, with between 500,000 to 2 million dying in the process. This event have been called a democide, or even a genocide, by some historians.