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Lxl0 TIL websites know your exact geographical location because your Wi-Fi address has been collected by a Google StreetView car
Aoo7 TIL that Weird Al Yankovic has never accepted any outside ideas or titles for a song, with one exception- Madonna herself asked when he was going to turn “Like a Virgin” into “Like a Surgeon”
00ay TIL The first man to fly a plane Orville Wright) & the first man to walk on the moon (Buzz Aldrin) were alive at the same time. Buzz was 17 when Orville died and his father was good friends with Orville.
BXWk TIL remains found in a peat bog in Florida in 1982 are over 8000 years old - predating the Pyramids by 3500 years.
XEbmD TIL that many European celebrities, including Holywood actors Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, George Segals, were stranded in Czechoslovakia when the Warsaw Pact nations invaded in 1968