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TIL Oman's Crown Prince Married & Divorced His First Cousin

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e0444 TIL When Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin left the lunar lander to step onto the moon, one of them broke off the toggle switch that armed the ascent engines. Aldrin jammed a pen into the resulting hole to arm the engines so they could get home.
OoQ9X TIL baby puffins are called "pufflings".
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D19xp TIL During WWII, Robert Johnson II’s Permacell division of Johnson&Johnson invented duct tape as a sealant for ammunition boxes to keep them from becoming waterlogged.