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TIL that there is a 8.5 cm (3.3 in) aluminium astronaut on the moon called the Fallen Astronaut meant to honor astronauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration.

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p8Ld8 TIL a mummy of the daughter of Xerxes was put on display in The National Museum of Pakistan in 2000. A year later analysis of the mummy revealed the woman was murdered around 1996 and the case remains unsolved.
gM8lX TIL that after the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, Elza Polak was fired for being a Jew. In revenge, she ran a network of gardens for the Yugoslav Resistance. She is now considered a pioneer for horticulture in Croatia
6EOLw TIL about the Eggnog Riot. On 24th December 1826 more than a third of U.S. Military Academy cadets in West Point, New York, rioted after consuming eggnog with whiskey during a Christmas party.
OGxZ1 TIL a man was killed by a beaver while trying to photograph it. The man spotted the beaver while fishing with friends, approached it, and the beaver bit the man on the thigh, which severed an artery. Tragically the man's friends were unable to stanch the blood loss.
yVPKJ TIL That the Vikings didn't wear horned helmets but their forefathers from the bronze age did