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TIL that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had to remember not to close the door on the Eagle Lunar Lander, because it had no outside door handle.

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vRWK TIL that London Mayor Boris Johnson saved a woman from being assaulted by a group of teenagers. The woman later called him her “Knight on a shining bicycle.”
RQVl TIL that 13,000 years ago, North America had a lake bigger than the Black Sea. When it finally drained it cause global sea levels to rise as much as 3 meters.
MeeBb TIL of the religion of Nuwaubianism - which holds the belief that Satan's child is being nurtured by the illuminati and was raised by former US President Richard Nixon, and is currently hooked up bodily to a machine called "The Beast 3M" or "3666"
8p0L TIL that a there is a traditional British army drink called gunfire made of black tea and rum. Officers serve it to lower ranks on Christmas. During the Korean war, British soldiers once gave gunfire to some American MPs, causing them to drive an ARV and some Jeeps into a fence.
v1vyB TIL that 160 container ships have the same carbon footprint as all the cars in the world combined, yet the emissions from container ships are not included in global carbon emissions testing as they are typically beyond national boundaries