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TIL Excedrin & Excedrin Migraine are the same exact thing… just a different price

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LKBm TIL Wooly Mammoths survived on a couple of isolated islands in Siberia for up to 6,000 years after the species had gone extinct on the mainland.
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6DYQ TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) didn’t have life insurance, so they autographed hundreds of items for their families to sell in the event that they died