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TIL former astronaut Buzz Aldrin once punched a moon landing hoax conspiracy theorist in the face

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KOXrG TIL Scorsese's Wolf of Wall Street was funded by Riza Aziz who diverted $155M from Malaysia's 1MDB economic development company. In addition, his step-father (Prime Minister Najib Razak) channeled $700M into his personal account. 1MDB has no company address and was issued a $3B bond by Goldman Sachs
new7r TIL that Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Leo Tolstoy and Martin Luther King Jr. were advocates for non violent resistance
kOaPB TIL that in 2000, a drug bust at an abandoned nuclear missile silo in Kansas led to a 95% drop in availability of LSD in the United States for two years.
bR1E TIL that one man is responsible for saving ‘a billion lives’ by developing different strains of wheat crop, thereby averting predicted famines.
v95r TIL that in 6BC the Greeks dug a tunnel over 1,000m long through a mountain by digging from both ends and meeting in the middle. Ingenious surveying and geometrical techniques were used to ensure the two tunnels didn’t miss.